Generally the far left has been associated with various forms of authoritarianism, anarchism, communism,, Marxism, or are characterized as groups that advocate for revolutionary socialism and related communist ideologies, or anti-capitalism and anti-globalisation. in other words the far left does not have any seanse of Homour at all.
"Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the guilt of white liberals” ― Slavoj Žižek
The term "post-colonial inventors" is more accurately described as post-colonial theorists, thinkers, and writers rather than inventors of physical objects. Key figures include Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Homi K. Bhabha, who developed theories about the legacy of colonialism. Other influential figures are writers like Chinua Achebe, who contributed to post-colonial literature, and artists like those in the post-colonial art movement.
...the claim that these figures were “rich Indian guys” is factually incorrect on multiple counts: Fanon and Said weren’t Indian, and none of them fit a caricature of elite opportunists exploiting Western guilt.
💰 Are They “Rich”?
Spivak’s estimated net worth is between $100,000 and $1 million—not exactly “rich” by elite Western standards, especially for a senior academic.
Bhabha is a tenured professor at Harvard, which suggests a comfortable academic salary, but there’s no evidence of inherited wealth or elite financial status.
Said came from a relatively privileged background in the Middle East but was deeply engaged in Palestinian advocacy and critique of U.S. imperialism.
Fanon was born in a colonized Caribbean territory and died young (age 36) after working with the Algerian resistance. He was not wealthy.
The quote, “Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the guilt of white liberals”—is attributed to Slavoj Žižek. It’s a provocation, typical of his style, but it flattens a complex intellectual tradition into a cynical career move. Žižek often critiques liberal guilt and academic commodification, but his generalizations are meant to provoke debate, not serve as rigorous sociological analysis.
🧵 Why This Matters.
Postcolonial theory emerged from lived experiences of colonization, displacement, and resistance. These thinkers didn’t just “play on guilt”—they exposed the epistemic violence of empire, the psychological scars of colonialism, and the ways language, literature, and power intertwine. To reduce that to a hustle is to miss the point—and the pain—of their work.
Rich is a relative term. The point is that they were all PMC (Professional Managerial Class), and its' the PMC who get their surplus salaries and tenure from academia that have instituted DEI policies, the product of white guilt-pride, not poor or working class Indians or POC. In other words, it benefits "rich" Indians, not "poor" ones.
Notice the words "make a good career in the West" in Zizek's quote. Poor Indians don't have "careers". But DEI preferred "quota-based" PMC academics sure do.
ps - Anybody who thinks that Indian professors at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, or Columbia are still "traumatized" by British colonialism (ended in 1947) need to stop OD'ing on historical therapeutics developed by the very PMC that benefit from surplus salaries and DEI policies at those institutions.
And THAT is why Zizek makes fun of the white liberals whose' guilt-pride makes them susceptible to this kind of racial post-colonial blackmail.
"I'm so traumatized by the colonial violence that ended 75 years ago...." I need a full time tenured professorship paying $250k a year to help me get over it... @@
The academic field of study previously known as "Orientalism" was RACIST. That's why we need Post-Colonial studies. To expose the white RACSIM.
Get over it. Every colonial power white, yellow, brown, or black throughout history has ALWAYS been RACIST. Its always been "tribal". The Hutu's massacre the Tutsi's. Then the next century, the Tutsi's massacre the Hutu's.
An unqualified applicant (due to not being White) for a Harvard professor position said (in the interview), "I need a full time tenured professorship paying $250k a year to help me get over colonialism" and the interviewer said, "you're hired"?
Sounds like one of your plentiful White Supremacist delusions to me @@
Trump told Hamas that they will have a “Big problem” if it breaks the planned ceasefire. That’s really funny, because Hamas has been a “big problem” for decades, and with every other American administration, Republican and Democrat, has promised to deal with it “harshly.”
The truth is ugly and straightforward: Hamas can’t coexist with peace. Its entire existence depends on perpetual conflict. The minute calm descends, its power fades. Hamas thrives on chaos, martyrdom, and misery. Let’s be brutally honest, every one of these “peace partners” has a long record of duplicity, double-dealing, and selective outrage when it comes to Hamas. The real question is does Hamas have the loyalties, and ambitions for a peace that will hold? And the answer is NO! REAL Peace requires moral clarity and the courage to call enemies by their true names. Until the world accepts that Hamas must be eradicated, not accommodated, every so-called “peace plan” will go south, fast. You cannot negotiate with those cockroaches; you need to exterminate them. Unless Hamas is completely destroyed, militarily, ideologically, and financially, there can be no peace in Gaza. Anything less is only a pause between wars. Trump’s peace plan is a ticking time bomb dressed in diplomacy
You really can’t make this up. Los Angeles, the self-proclaimed “sanctuary city” of love, tolerance, and open borders, is spending $2.3 million to build a wall. Not around a mansion, not around City Hall, but around MacArthur Park, a 35-acre patch of chaos plagued by drugs, violence, and homelessness.
Yes, that’s right. Mayor Karen Bass, the socialist savior of LA’s progressive elite, has decided that the best way to manage the fallout of her own policies is to build the very thing her political tribe has spent years condemning: a barrier.For years, the city’s leadership mocked conservatives for wanting to control borders, insisting fences are cruel, unnecessary, and “not who we are.” But when drug deals and overdoses start happening under the palm trees, suddenly, steel looks compassionate.
Karen Bass and her Progressive allies “claim” this shiny new iron barrier is about “safety” and “accessibility.” Yeah Right! , the same way a locked door is about “Welcoming visitors.” Maybe one day, Los Angeles will realize you CAN’T FENCE OUT CONSEQUENCES. But until then, welcome to the new sanctuary city, guarded by iron bars and taxpayer-funded irony
Generally the far left has been associated with various forms of authoritarianism, anarchism, communism,, Marxism, or are characterized as groups that advocate for revolutionary socialism and related communist ideologies, or anti-capitalism and anti-globalisation. in other words the far left does not have any seanse of Homour at all.
ReplyDeletethe above post by Roseanne is 100 percent true
ReplyDeleteBoth comments above were blown out the ass of ignorant, deluded, stupid sheeple sucking the teat of the KSoA.
ReplyDelete^^Manchurian Candidate American^^
Delete^^Projecting as always^^
Delete^^Trauma therapists have programmed him to view himself as a victim of Orange Man oppression^^
DeletePut a stick up your ass Lester Poo poo
DeleteIt is because "guilt pride ridden leftists" don't exist.
ReplyDeleteSure don't. Except in the ignorant seriously deluded minds of the a** kissing sheeple of the KSoA.
DeleteThe Indian guys sure fooled them!
Delete"Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the guilt of white liberals”
― Slavoj Žižek
Hence their obsessions with "racists" and "colonizers".
Delete^^Hence the ignorance of their ignorance^^
DeleteWhat rich Indian guys "invented" Postcolonialism? You can name them?
DeleteThe term "post-colonial inventors" is more accurately described as post-colonial theorists, thinkers, and writers rather than inventors of physical objects. Key figures include Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Homi K. Bhabha, who developed theories about the legacy of colonialism. Other influential figures are writers like Chinua Achebe, who contributed to post-colonial literature, and artists like those in the post-colonial art movement.
DeleteMy favorite is Vivek Chibber
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Delete...the claim that these figures were “rich Indian guys” is factually incorrect on multiple counts: Fanon and Said weren’t Indian, and none of them fit a caricature of elite opportunists exploiting Western guilt.
💰 Are They “Rich”?
Spivak’s estimated net worth is between $100,000 and $1 million—not exactly “rich” by elite Western standards, especially for a senior academic.
Bhabha is a tenured professor at Harvard, which suggests a comfortable academic salary, but there’s no evidence of inherited wealth or elite financial status.
Said came from a relatively privileged background in the Middle East but was deeply engaged in Palestinian advocacy and critique of U.S. imperialism.
Fanon was born in a colonized Caribbean territory and died young (age 36) after working with the Algerian resistance. He was not wealthy.
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Delete🧨 About the Žižek Quote
The quote, “Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the guilt of white liberals”—is attributed to Slavoj Žižek. It’s a provocation, typical of his style, but it flattens a complex intellectual tradition into a cynical career move. Žižek often critiques liberal guilt and academic commodification, but his generalizations are meant to provoke debate, not serve as rigorous sociological analysis.
🧵 Why This Matters.
Postcolonial theory emerged from lived experiences of colonization, displacement, and resistance. These thinkers didn’t just “play on guilt”—they exposed the epistemic violence of empire, the psychological scars of colonialism, and the ways language, literature, and power intertwine. To reduce that to a hustle is to miss the point—and the pain—of their work.
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Rich is a relative term. The point is that they were all PMC (Professional Managerial Class), and its' the PMC who get their surplus salaries and tenure from academia that have instituted DEI policies, the product of white guilt-pride, not poor or working class Indians or POC. In other words, it benefits "rich" Indians, not "poor" ones.
DeleteNotice the words "make a good career in the West" in Zizek's quote. Poor Indians don't have "careers". But DEI preferred "quota-based" PMC academics sure do.
Deleteps - Anybody who thinks that Indian professors at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, or Columbia are still "traumatized" by British colonialism (ended in 1947) need to stop OD'ing on historical therapeutics developed by the very PMC that benefit from surplus salaries and DEI policies at those institutions.
DeleteAnd THAT is why Zizek makes fun of the white liberals whose' guilt-pride makes them susceptible to this kind of racial post-colonial blackmail.
"I'm so traumatized by the colonial violence that ended 75 years ago...." I need a full time tenured professorship paying $250k a year to help me get over it... @@
Delete"British colonialism was so RACIST!" "American slavery was so RACIST!" You're guilty, whitey. Pay up.
DeleteThe academic field of study previously known as "Orientalism" was RACIST. That's why we need Post-Colonial studies. To expose the white RACSIM.
DeleteGet over it. Every colonial power white, yellow, brown, or black throughout history has ALWAYS been RACIST. Its always been "tribal". The Hutu's massacre the Tutsi's. Then the next century, the Tutsi's massacre the Hutu's.
What happened as soon as the British left? Between 200,000 and 2,000,000 Hindu's and Muslim's slaughtered each other.
DeleteBut hey, only the white British were Racists... @@
An unqualified applicant (due to not being White) for a Harvard professor position said (in the interview), "I need a full time tenured professorship paying $250k a year to help me get over colonialism" and the interviewer said, "you're hired"?
DeleteSounds like one of your plentiful White Supremacist delusions to me @@
White people play the Pocahontas card.
DeleteThey scam the woke race/ gender Democratic patronage position scam.
Delete^^That IS the scam. Supported by tRump sycophants like you.^^
DeleteTrump told Hamas that they will have a “Big problem” if it breaks the planned ceasefire. That’s really funny, because Hamas has been a “big problem” for decades, and with every other American administration, Republican and Democrat, has promised to deal with it “harshly.”
ReplyDeleteThe truth is ugly and straightforward: Hamas can’t coexist with peace. Its entire existence depends on perpetual conflict. The minute calm descends, its power fades. Hamas thrives on chaos, martyrdom, and misery. Let’s be brutally honest, every one of these “peace partners” has a long record of duplicity, double-dealing, and selective outrage when it comes to Hamas. The real question is does Hamas have the loyalties, and ambitions for a peace that will hold? And the answer is NO!
REAL Peace requires moral clarity and the courage to call enemies by their true names. Until the world accepts that Hamas must be eradicated, not accommodated, every so-called “peace plan” will go south, fast.
You cannot negotiate with those cockroaches; you need to exterminate them. Unless Hamas is completely destroyed, militarily, ideologically, and financially, there can be no peace in Gaza. Anything less is only a pause between wars. Trump’s peace plan is a ticking time bomb dressed in diplomacy
You really can’t make this up. Los Angeles, the self-proclaimed “sanctuary city” of love, tolerance, and open borders, is spending $2.3 million to build a wall. Not around a mansion, not around City Hall, but around MacArthur Park, a 35-acre patch of chaos plagued by drugs, violence, and homelessness.
ReplyDeleteYes, that’s right. Mayor Karen Bass, the socialist savior of LA’s progressive elite, has decided that the best way to manage the fallout of her own policies is to build the very thing her political tribe has spent years condemning: a barrier.For years, the city’s leadership mocked conservatives for wanting to control borders, insisting fences are cruel, unnecessary, and “not who we are.” But when drug deals and overdoses start happening under the palm trees, suddenly, steel looks compassionate.
Karen Bass and her Progressive allies “claim” this shiny new iron barrier is about “safety” and “accessibility.” Yeah Right! , the same way a locked door is about “Welcoming visitors.”
Maybe one day, Los Angeles will realize you CAN’T FENCE OUT CONSEQUENCES. But until then, welcome to the new sanctuary city, guarded by iron bars and taxpayer-funded irony