It straight up baffles me that there are some notable Black communists in the US that actually support this opportunist.

It would not be shocking in the slightest if West ended up being on CIA payroll to draw attention away from the actual socialist candidates running on the PSL ticket.

No it's not. He's willfully ignoring the mountains of evidence that the Nazis did indeed deliberately target European Jewish people and almost wiped their population out. They targeted other groups, sure. But antisemitic conspiracies were an explicit part of their entire ideology. Yeah, the legacy of the Holocaust is distorted and weaponized by the West, but his statement is one of Holocaust denial.

This is an L. And his take doesn't help the struggle against Israel or the global reputation of Arabs.

Went to a march for Palestine yesterday. I'm in a pretty progressive city, but it was still surprising just how many people showed up and how many bystanders showed their support. There are thousands of people marching every day for Palestine all over the country and the media is just ignoring it.

The pessimism makes more sense given the context of the time it was written in. I've heard Gerald Horne's Counterrevolution series described by some as a more contemporary analysis that succeeds Settlers.

I think the controversial rap the book gets is due more to its more dogmatic followers. Like a lot of maoists/third worldists, they have accurate observations but draw questionable conclusions from them.

My teacher said "At least they got food and housing."

The fucking South.

Reminding everyone to take care of your mental health. I know we all can't help but get emotionally involved in major events, but there is a limit to that.

Absolutely surreal in the worst ways to see a major world conflict being fought in part with smug social media dunks.

"Doublethink"

Orwell was a shitty socialist, but he was completely on point with the terms he coined to describe thought manipulation and the effects of propaganda.

I'm surprised Western press isn't burying this.

These stupid crackers think we're all Chinese anyway. Even if they made the distinction mentally they wouldn't actually conduct their hate crimes with any accuracy.

COVID hate crimes targeted Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese, etc.

Honestly this just makes it funnier.

They were allowed to write anything and they wrote "I can't read this shit."

It's no different than Nazi propaganda in the 30s.