Bad show from him, even a dingus like me knows what woke capitalism looks like.

From just that one quote I would say thats essentially the same take as right wingers make, conflating exploitation and cooptation with support and genuine popularity, doesn’t necessarily mean it comes from the same place as the right wing opinions on trans people but its a bad take.

Popular is completely the wrong word here. Companies are utterly amoral, they will do what they think looks best and as much evil shit as they can get away with as long as there’s money in it. I’d bet there are medical insurance companies boasting of having a trans inclusive workplace at the same time as racheting up prices for hormone therapy and surgery. Maybe it’s somewhat lost in translation but popular infers somehow a relationship between companies and trans people that is way more beneficial to trans people than the reality. I dunno maybe I am reading too much into it.

He does address identity politics in a nuanced way throughout his work, he views it as the hysterical response which is also a necessary/ fundamental moment in articulating a critique of ideology and hegemony, it’s merely that this, the proliferation of the multiplicity of identities, is not in itself revolutionary. He absolutely believes trans people have the right to exist, housing, work, have full political agency, families, friends… His whole point is that these things should not hinge on whether identity of the other is merely tolerated, but on the basis of a shared emancipatory project which excepts no one. I just think he principally refuses to fetishize transgender identity (which can appear callous and be weaponized through reactionary framing).

I think a good feminist interlocutor from the same Lacanian frame as Zizek is Mari Ruti if you want to check her out. She offers a ton engagement with the notion of identity and most of her work I’ve read has also woven in very valid critiques of Zizek (and while these are grounded in a more individualist frame, she writes in a much more accessible manner). I get that Lacanian discourses around the phallus, castration, hysteria and whatnot can sound hyperpatriarchal, but the core implications are actually radically egalitarian if you grasp them correctly. Castration is the precondition of subjectivity for all of us.

Also the thumbnail above is obviously inflammatory relative to the content of the video, come on

He suffers from being a meme (meaning people are rarely given a reason to engage directly with his work), and from the fact that he rather likes being a meme, and plays up the character in interviews.

Anyway I’m 90% sure his take here is boneheaded, but that doesn’t invalidate everything he’s ever said.

I’m not saying i disagree with that first position, but where are you finding all these trans nazis?