Angela Davis has had weird and shitty liberal takes for decades iirc. I don’t say this to diminish any of the good work she did, but this is a perfect case in point. Caitlin Johnstone just published a piece critiquing this exact bullshit, explaining how people in the West criticizing the targets of Western imperialism are literally doing the CIA’s work for them.
Davis may as well go on the Sam Harris podcast now and talk about how Islamic fundementalism is the real threat while the US and Israel literally bombs their country, like it’s 2001 again.
Angela Davis has had weird and shitty liberal takes for decades iirc. I don’t say this to diminish any of the good work she did, but this is a perfect case in point. Caitlin Johnstone just published a piece critiquing this exact bullshit, explaining how people in the West criticizing the targets of Western imperialism are literally doing the CIA’s work for them.
Davis may as well go on the Sam Harris podcast now and talk about how Islamic fundementalism is the real threat while the US and Israel literally bombs their country, like it’s 2001 again.
edit: I thought it was just a related take, but no – Johnstone was calling out the shitty Guardian letter, specifically