The whole point is to discredit anti-imperialism as a movement by forcing otherwise empathetic people to prioritize their progressivism over their anti-imperialism.

This would be like raising concerns that plenty of queers work for Lockheed Martin whenever the topic of queer rights became particularly pertinent. Let’s just throw all gays under the bus because plenty of them are racist shitbags.

This type of propaganda is one of the most insidious because it presents two marginalized groups as inherently juxtaposed, when in reality they are both engaged in similar liberation struggles involving serious contradictions imposed upon them by the world around them.