{"id":9251,"date":"2020-03-15T15:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T14:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9251"},"modified":"2020-03-15T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T18:47:13","slug":"ciacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9251","title":{"rendered":"Ciacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Imagine we were to visit Dante&#8217;s Hell now and find there in the Third Circle today&#8217;s Ciacco, a gluttonous Western European who ignores the plight of migrants, focused as he is on continuing his consumption undisturbed. If we were to ask him, &#8218;But tell me, where are all those humanitarians who bent their minds on working good?&#8216;, would he not snap back: &#8218;You will have to descend much deeper, their souls are much blacker than mine!&#8216; Why? Is this not a too cruel reaction? The point is that, self-critical as it may appear to be, the humanitarian reaction almost imperceptibly transforms a politico-economic problem into a moral one of &#8218;refugee crisis&#8216; and of &#8218;helping the victims&#8216;. Instead of attacking the silent lower-class majority as racist and ignorant of the immigrants&#8216; plight, or, at best, as stupid victims of racist media propaganda, it should address their actual concerns, which express themselves in a racist way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Slavoj \u017di\u017eek,\u00a0<em>The Courage of Hopelessness<\/em>, (London: Penguin, 2018),\u00a0176.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine we were to visit Dante&#8217;s Hell now and find there in the Third Circle today&#8217;s Ciacco, a gluttonous Western European who ignores the plight of migrants, focused as he is on continuing his consumption undisturbed. If we were to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9251\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}