People might not be aware, or remember, some of the early controversies around Chapo Trap House. First, there is always the fact they are making millions of dollars with a nominally leftist take on politics but they do not disclose where their money is going (except for joking about cocaine and ketamine, which...ya know). They also made a joke about the MOVE bombing being justified — this is a tragedy that reverberates to this day with survivors still in jail, or being released at the ripe age of 70 or 80 years old, and their children's bones recently being found at Penn U. They posed next to Bill Cosby's hollywood star and made light of his rape allegations. Felix made some controversial statements on Twitter regarding SA. And they had incredibly shitty takes regarding the summer 2020 uprisings, and the movement or calls for defunding the police and having Matt Taibbi to shit on critical race theory (which it's not even taught in schools, so please shut the fuck up). Personally, chapo helped radicalized, it got me reading more theory and history and renewed/rekindled my interest in politics and social justice, ironically enough; but other people are allowed to criticize the podcast, their ideas, their tropes, and their takes and I have a genuine interest in intersectionality with comrades of color and it is a bummer to try and advance a project of political education and have it meet a fucking wall because of the CTH brand. But that's just me...
People might not be aware, or remember, some of the early controversies around Chapo Trap House. First, there is always the fact they are making millions of dollars with a nominally leftist take on politics but they do not disclose where their money is going (except for joking about cocaine and ketamine, which...ya know). They also made a joke about the MOVE bombing being justified — this is a tragedy that reverberates to this day with survivors still in jail, or being released at the ripe age of 70 or 80 years old, and their children's bones recently being found at Penn U. They posed next to Bill Cosby's hollywood star and made light of his rape allegations. Felix made some controversial statements on Twitter regarding SA. And they had incredibly shitty takes regarding the summer 2020 uprisings, and the movement or calls for defunding the police and having Matt Taibbi to shit on critical race theory (which it's not even taught in schools, so please shut the fuck up). Personally, chapo helped radicalized, it got me reading more theory and history and renewed/rekindled my interest in politics and social justice, ironically enough; but other people are allowed to criticize the podcast, their ideas, their tropes, and their takes and I have a genuine interest in intersectionality with comrades of color and it is a bummer to try and advance a project of political education and have it meet a fucking wall because of the CTH brand. But that's just me...
Cool, absolutely not the same as refusing to have anything to do with that name near it.
CTH, due to its reach, has done more for the "left" than any of the people who despise it.
It's not ironic. That's explicitly what CTH is good at. Making leftist politics not look like going to church with losers.
I disagree but w.e.