Thread by @OzKaterji

This alliance is frankly negligible. The wider organised elements of the western left have no interest in confronting these elements from within. The vast majority are not only willing to ignore the campists, many are more than happy to continue to organise alongside their allies

https://twitter.com/initialvw/status/1473432202696441861

Speaking from experience, even people I have known for a decade on the left can’t be bothered to disinvite full blown war crimes revisionists as podcast guests, people I know disagree on these topics in private.

In public thought it’s all fart noises, shitposts and pretending that these people either don’t exist or exist so far on the peripheries that nobody considers them relevant. 5 minutes later they’ll retweet someone whose main sidegig is calling dead Syrian kids crisis actors.

Ask yourself why unrepentant Bosnian genocide revisionist Noam Chomsky is still the left’s favourite academic and get back to me when you have an answer. I wish this broad left anti-tankie coalition existed, but as I said, in organised left spaces, that alliance is negligible.

In Britain at least, it’s *near impossible* to find an explicitly left wing media organisation that hasn’t at least dabbled in a little light revisionism over the last decade. Corbynism went even further by promoting a handful of these cranks to senior political roles.

That’s not to say the right wing press is any better, but in a discussion about left wing war crimes apologism, let’s be totally frank, there are almost no clean hands on the far left, and most of those with clean hands do next to nothing to confront their allies on these issues.

Anyway here’s the cofounder of Novara Media publicly defending Max Blumenthal’s Uighur genocide revisionism. How does this continue to happen if the western left is building an alliance against this? Nobody is speaking out against this, let’s be honest.