All these folks lecturing about how Chapo fans would have gone alt-right if Chapo hadn't found them first still don't get that that's the problem.

The fact that white dudes looking to play the victim and bully others use Chapo as an outlet instead of the alt-right doesn't make the podcast an asset.

It's tacitly encouraged these dudes to use class reductionism as an excuse to act like racist, sexist bullies within the left.

Women and POC who've been doing actual work on the left for ages now get chided for demanding respect in our own movement because it might scare these bros away.

As if these online dilettantes ever did any real self-work or movement work in the first place.

I led a labor/econ justice org for nearly a decade, was one of two national coordinators of Tax March, was a 2026 Bernie delegate, worked as Organizing Director for a racial justice org, and now hunt Nazis.

Online dirtbaggers consistently tell me to shut up and go canvass.

It's the fucking movement equivalent of being told to get back in the kitchen and I have zero tolerance for it and zero respect for anyone telling me these chuds are a net gain and should be catered to.

They don't do shit except divide and weaken our movement.

Women and POC and other oppressed people continue to speak up and say fuck class reductionism, this is our movement that we built and your Bernie profile pic does not make you Very Smart New King of the Left.

We will depose these self-appointed New Kings of the Left and it will be a pain in the ass and a waste of our time and energy that the Chapo crowd is to blame for.

But we will win, because we are the ones who actually do the work.