[avs733]

I’ve seen this narrative start to pop up a lot attacking “the left” about the Ukraine situation.

The odd part is I have yet to say anyone saying the things that they are told they should stop saying.

This all seems like a really aggressive attempt to preemptively narrow one side of the window of acceptable discourse.

[walden789]

It has nothing to do with a general attack on "the left". Bilous himself is a leftist. The point is criticizing a specific part of the western left which understands itself as anti-imperalist but by fully concentrating on the west and NATO totally lost sight of quite real non-western imperalism which manifests itself in Ukraine right now.

[avs733]

>The point is criticizing a specific part of the western left

My point wasn't about who said it or what they are referring to...I'm clear on that.

My point was I keep seeing critiques of a position I do not see actually existing in discourse. It seems like, since this started, there has been a concerted effort to attack a strawman.

'Focus' is such a strange thing to critique and just rings hollow. I really honestly haven't experienced anyone who talks about just western imperialism...maybe I'm blind and naive here but the fact that this is suddenly a critique is really sketchy to me.

[fmajid]

Reminds me of the late socialist former president of France François Mitterrand: "The anti-nuclear protesters are in the West, and the missiles in the East".