Tuesday, August 9, 2011

A vile logic to Anders Breivik's choice of target

"What if Europe should accept the paradox that its democratic openness is based on exclusion – that there is 'no freedom for the enemies of freedom', as Robespierre put it long ago? In principle, this is, of course, true, but it is here that one has to be very specific. In a way, there was a vile logic to Breivik's choice of target: he didn't attack foreigners but those within his own community who were too tolerant towards intruding foreigners. The problem is not foreigners, it is our own (European) identity."
By Slavoj Žižek / guardian.co.uk/read more
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