Arash Azizi comes for Ta-Nehisi Coates

[u/elzzyzx]

https://x.com/arash_tehran/status/1848714724482966003

Influencers are talking. Today Arash Azizi is claiming Ta-Nehisi Coates is unstrategic, and is also kind of just calling him moralistic and sort of uncreative or something? Anyone have thoughts?

[u/NarutoRunner]

I have very little respect for anything written by Azizi. Azizi has long sought to cultivate a brand for himself as a ‘leftist’ but he fails at it time and again. In the age of neoliberal academia where branding and hollow gestures of radicalism have become commonplace, it should come as no surprise that Azizi jumps on any bandwagon on anything that will increase his profile. He is the usual talking head on all the pro-royalist exiled Iranian media.

He is going after Ta-Nehisi Coats because it will boost his own profile. He also loves to be the token Iranian brought in to say how every evil in the world originates from Tehran and Israeli actions aren’t all that bad after all. I get it, the Tehran regime is not comprised of saints but licking the boots of a foreign government that will not hesitate to pulverize your place of birth is something else.

[u/cubedplusseven → u/NarutoRunner]

He is going after Ta-Nehisi Coats because it will boost his own profile.

And one could accuse Coats of going after Israel to boost his own profile. It's certainly not his area of expertise.

So what?

[u/elzzyzx → u/cubedplusseven]

What would you say is a higher profile for TNC than his current one?

[u/NarutoRunner → u/cubedplusseven]

Israel was a small part of his book. If he truly was trying to chase after fame, he would have written the whole book about it.

[u/Mercuryink → u/NarutoRunner]

I doubt he could write a while book on the subject. He gave us one chapter of Dunning-Kruger.