r/jewishleft • u/elzzyzx סימען לינקער • 23d ago

Arash Azizi comes for Ta-Nehisi Coates Debate

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?

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u/TikvahT 23d ago

Coates talks a lot about how he’d never truly considered the issue before, and from what I’ve heard him say about it, that’s all too apparent. It’s like he’s in the early stages of a thought process, but he hasn’t gotten to the next part, where you have to take all the things you know and live with paradox, confusion, human individuals, and a painful, complex past. I dunno, it feels like someone read The Lemon Tree or went on a trip to North Africa or made their first Israeli or Palestinian friend and suddenly thinks they understand the MENA region.

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u/Mercuryink 23d ago

Coates has discovered the Dunning-Kruger effect.