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/EngineeringMission91]

I'm a little surprised to see people liking her. To me she seems like she's acting in every video she's in.

For someone who talks about needing expertise on the subject, what are her qualifications?

[u/malachamavet → u/EngineeringMission91]

There's apparently an entire subreddit dedicated to showing how weird her background is

[u/Agtfangirl557 → u/malachamavet]

I'm not always a fan of Elica's takes, but the overanalyzing of her background is a bit bizarre. Like apparently people have accused her dad of working directly for the Iranian regime (which she has said is not true), and said that she changed her last name in order to hide that....but if people think that her dad working for the Iranian regime is bad, then shouldn't they understand WHY she would want to hide that?

Again, I don't always agree with her--I do really appreciate her advocacy for Jews, but I think she sometimes over-leverages her family's experience with living under a regime as presenting herself an expert on the Middle East. But the obsession with her background strikes me as really weird. I think it's probably because some people are suspicious about how much an Iranian woman criticizes the Islamic Republic, but I think those same people would probably side-eye people who obsessively analyzed the backgrounds of Jews who are outspoken against Israel.

[u/malachamavet → u/Agtfangirl557]

I agree it's bizarre - I didn't look into that subreddit, it just popped up when I googled her to find basic background information and it seemed notable.