the tweet:
https://twitter.com/GabrielRockhill/status/1699957902335746434#m
zizek’s paywalled article:
The quote in question:
However, it is clear that the “anti-colonial” uprisings in Central Africa are even worse than French neocolonialism. The future they bring is that of failed states like Zimbabwe and Myanmar: authoritarian military rule; economic regression into new lows of poverty that profit only the new and corrupt elite; ideological fundamentalism combined with a pushback against “colonial” influences like gay rights.
Regarding Zimbabwe: This is a funny example for Zizek to use since Zimbabwe is largely impoverished because of western neocolonial IMF loans:
Regarding the narrative that LGBT rights are colonial. Obviously that is bullshit and it’s interesting that both Russia and NATO liberals are pushing it, but for opposite reasons. Liberals in NATO countries are pushing it because it wants to be seen as the global vanguard of LGBT rights, when they are not, and never have been. Russia is pushing it because it wants to be seen as the vanguard of (for lack of a better term) “social conservatism” and “tradition” protecting the global south from “western decadence” or whatever other reactionary nonsense.
The problem, you schee, snort, ish that I am not friends with thish “new” elite. Only the old elite, as dogs of their European mashters, benefitsh myself and my cohortsh. And so on, and so forth.