He ends it with “it’s truly hopeless…” when there absolutely have been anti-imperialist organizing efforts (he just ignores that to make it a contest of priorities and say that nobody in the US cares and never will). Worth noting that 2020 was marked by protests sparked by the extrajudicial murder of George Floyd, a black man, so claiming it’s only about the death of a “white” person is also erasing even recent history of a similar nature; this incident is tied not just to the death of a white woman, but also to the perception of ICE and its racist campaign.
That said, there are for sure valid criticisms to make of the USian “left”. We could spend all day on it and more, and some seem to want to do that right now rather than take advantage of the conditions to improve the situation. But he isn’t even doing that. He’s hashing together a narrative that trivializes and denies any liberation efforts in the US at all and derides it as hopeless.
I don’t know how else to explain this. There is a difference between principled criticism and fatalistic erasure.
He ends it with “it’s truly hopeless…” when there absolutely have been anti-imperialist organizing efforts (he just ignores that to make it a contest of priorities and say that nobody in the US cares and never will). Worth noting that 2020 was marked by protests sparked by the extrajudicial murder of George Floyd, a black man, so claiming it’s only about the death of a “white” person is also erasing even recent history of a similar nature; this incident is tied not just to the death of a white woman, but also to the perception of ICE and its racist campaign.
That said, there are for sure valid criticisms to make of the USian “left”. We could spend all day on it and more, and some seem to want to do that right now rather than take advantage of the conditions to improve the situation. But he isn’t even doing that. He’s hashing together a narrative that trivializes and denies any liberation efforts in the US at all and derides it as hopeless.
I don’t know how else to explain this. There is a difference between principled criticism and fatalistic erasure.