Why Is the Self-Proclaimed Leftist Slavoj Žižek Making Right-Wing Remarks About the Syrian Refugee Crisis?

In a recent interview with Channel 4 News, Žižek argued that the Syrian refugee crisis is not the tragedy we think it is.

Noam Chomsky once accused the cultural critic and Marxist scholar, Slavoj Žižek, of being “an extreme example of” a vapid intellectual. Žižek, the alleged “radical leftist,” validated Chomsky’s assessment in a recent interview with Channel 4 News.

In the interview, Žižek echoed right-wing propaganda about the Syrian refugee crisis by suggesting that it i…