#self-guilt

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Page 8: Self-Guilt

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Episode Black: The Last Wish.

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Furthermore when leftist liberals endlessly vary the motif of how the rise of terrorism is the result of Western colonial and military interventions in the Middle East, meaning that we are ultimately responsible for it, their analysis, although affecting respect towards others, stands out as a blatant case of patronizing racism that reduces the Other to a passive victim and deprives it of any agenda. What such a view fails to see is how Arabs are in no way just passive victims of European and American neo-colonial machinations. Their different courses of action are not just reactive, they are different forms of active engagement in their predicament: the expansive and aggressive push towards Islamization (financing mosques in foreign countries, for example), and open warfare against the West are ways of actively engaging in a situation with a well-defined goal.

Slavoj Žižek, “Like a Thief in Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism” (2018).