(Dialectic over a cup of coffee)
Marx: I think our black friend was right, this coffee is in no way helping me stimulate my senses.
Zizek: Yes, because its colour is lighter than him! Maybe you should try something else.
Marx: That joke is still funny even though it's racist, but I admire the fact about how you're being “politically incorrect”.
Zizek: I don't like that phenomenon at all.
Marx: I've been reading about it a lot a nowadays, it was recently in the news.
Zizek: Yes, I read this thing lately, wherein the Oxford University banned the pronouns he and she in favour of ‘ze’ because apparently, the use of the incorrect pronoun might offend transgender students.
Marx: Looks like the bourgeois are trying …show more content…
It connected us and now this forced political correctness isn't even permitting us to have a good laugh at ourselves.
Marx: That is how the state apparatuses have been indulging in social exclusion for years. No wonder why people feel alienated, in fact, alienation is necessary in the present society because in its absence, the entire system will topple over and the ultimate revolution would take place.
Zizek: I couldn't agree more with you. It is this dynamism that leads to the obfuscation of causes.
Marx: That is apparently the reason behind why people prefer certain people over the others in power because the reality is distorted and discussions regarding power, race, gender are often at bay.
Zizek: On the contrary, what I've seen and observed tells me that the power relationships have become impenetrable because these discussions are at the centre of everything, look at the media, everywhere you are fed with, what is right and what is wrong, you are drugged about the ways of African-Americans, I don't really like that term, but time and again, you are reminded of how poor they are or how women need to be helped. Stereotyping happens because of