"Recent outbursts of homophobia in eastern European post-communist states should also give us pause for thought. In early 2011, there was a gay parade in Istanbul where thousands walked in peace, with no violence or other disturbances; in gay parades which took place at the same time in Serbia and Croatia (Belgrade, Split), police were not able to protect participants who were ferociously attacked by thousands of violent Christian fundamentalists. These fundamentalists, not Turkey's, are the true threat to the European legacy, so when the EU basically blocked Turkey's entry, we should ask the obvious question: what about applying the same rules to eastern Europe?"
Slavoj Žižek, Guardian Online.
This man is such a phony.
Was he there?
Interesting he singles out Serbia
and Croatia as examples of evil.
Žižek is Slovenian, incidentally.
Old habits die hard, I guess.
Maybe 200 people turned up in Split - most of whom were there for something else - and booed.
It's not the end of civilisation.
Furthermore, as long as people on the left take seriously self- aggrandising, time-wasting, pseudo-intellectual, fog-machine fuckwits like this (and Adam Curtis), we will never ever have a revolution.
And that's called sad.
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