The next anti-imperialist voice to rise to a position of prominence will with absolute certainty be the subject of many news reports informing us that that person is problematic for some reason, be it antisemitism or Kremlin loyalty or something else. But they will find a reason.
Try to think of an influential voice who consistently opposes western imperialism but hasn't been smeared as an antisemite, a Kremlin asset, a closet right-winger or a kook at some point. Such figures simply are not permitted to emerge without being viciously smeared anymore.
If western leftists ever want to be more than a glorified group chat, we need to stop letting this happen. We need to stop letting them use the fact that we care about things and have principles to concern troll every important movement into division and impotence.
At some point we need to plant our feet, resolve not to let vapid concern trolling about imperfections in the people within a given movement fracture and paralyze us, ignore the bad faith noise, and charge forward.
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