This has been a depressing aspect of this war. Small, in the grand scheme, sure, but notable and lasting: there are a number of people now who one admired or at least found interesting before this war that have to be written off as terminally unreliable.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1498959141397680128
There are different streams of the "anti-woke" failure over #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine, with the wilful contrarians who just cannot stand consensus on one side, and the ideologists who hate the liberal West and thus either by conviction or default admire Putin on the other.
Some of the "anti-woke" lunacy over Ukraine has revealed certain people to be quite stupid, but simple stupidity would produce "takes" all over the map and these reliably go in one direction - namely, anti-Ukraine and/or pro-Russia. Kremlin agitprop was pushing at an open door.
As ever, war was a great clarifier. Perhaps some people will come to regret their reactions in this moment of crisis. But it's not really good enough, and it's not possible to erase the memory of where their instincts went when the chips were actually down.
Do not want to overstate this, and how conscious and central it is surely varies among the anti-Kyiv "anti-woke" set, which has people adjacent to, downstream from, and overlapping with frog Twitter, but Zelensky being Jewish has done nothing to help their sense of reason.
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