Admittedly even though I’ve been listening to chapo since 2018-ish I only became “officially part of the community”, as in i started following the podcast every week and joined the subreddit, a few months ago when i became very politically invested upon seeing how bad the government dealt with the pandemic. as a result i’m not too familiarized with a lot of the inside jokes one of them being this collective annoyance at Amber. I’ve heard some rumours about her criticizing the subreddit and telling us all to “get a life” or something along those lines, but apart from that I don’t really know much about her outside of the chapo realm. Care to elucidate me?
I'd defend her from a horde of Nazis but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if I had to gulag her if that makes any sense.
that does make sense, but why would you say that she might not be a true comrade? i’ve seen her be a bit arrogant but aside from the guilt by association narrative what makes you question her political beliefs?
You should always be suspicious of class reductionists. Not that they're not communist--they are--but they are nonetheless bigots who would gladly sell any or all marginalized groups out the moment something tempting comes along. I'd gladly fight alongside her but again, once the dust settles, she's going to need to spend some time detoxing in the gulag. You get this with a lot of these Brooklynite champagne socialist types. She happily did an interview with a right wing, Koch-backed magazine just to brag about her un-PC, anti-woke left beliefs with Anna Khachiyan, going so far as to claim that middle class women are having their uteruses removed to get rid of the inconvenience of menstruation, which is a fucking baffling thing to say, but also is trying to insinuate that feminism is to blame.