People, a GREAT article by Slavoj Zizek on the refugees. In brief, Zizek argues that the Left should get over many of its ridiculous hangups because they are boring and counterproductive. Examples:
1. Abandon the idiotic idea of “freedom of movement” for refugees.
2. Drop the ridiculous anti-Eurocentrism. What we need is more Eurocentrism, not less.
3. Stop blabbing stupidly about how “the West is to blame for ISIS.”
4. Criticizing Muslim fundamentalists is a noble endeavor. Stop using the bugbear of Islamophobia to shut down any discussion of the evilness of these fundamentalists.
5. If people want to come to Europe, they should be forced, yes, forced, by law if necessary, to accept the European norms and freedoms such as women’s rights and gay rights.
6. Drop the obnoxious S&M dynamic that Westerners so love and that Zizek describes as follows:
The more Western Europe will be open to [the refugees], the more it will be made to feel guilty that it did not accept even more of them. There will never be enough of them. And with those who are here, the more tolerance one displays towards their way of life, the more one will be made guilty for not practicing enough tolerance.
7. Stop treating immigrants as subhuman and hence immune from legal and moral norms being applied to them. This insanity was manifested, for instance, in the Left’s incapacity even to verbalize what happened in Rotherham:
What is not acknowledged is that such anti-racism is in effect a form of covert racism since it condescendingly treats Pakistanis as morally inferior beings who should not be held to normal human standards.
In short: yes, OF COURSE, Western value of women’s rights, sexual freedom, representative democracy and welfare state are vastly superior to anything that exists anywhere in the world. They are not superior in the sense of “Let’s go kill someone to make them happy against their will” but they are superior in the sense of “Can’t respect and uphold our Enlightened values? Proceed to the exit immediately.”