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I remember a Bob Black article somewhere in which he talked about how while just about any anarchist would say they hate the U.S./British justice system of trial by jury and whatnot, many of them want to replace it with something even worse - guilty by accusation until proven innocent.

This whole thing is mind-reading, bad faith, immediately jumping to the worst possible interpretation. Two days ago Bellamy was definitely an entryist, now it's that he is being deceived by his co-host who is an entryist...why not just see what actually happens with the show before rushing to judgment? Ffs, they haven't even responded yet.

Bellamy has been extremely anti-identitarian for years - I find it next to impossible to believe he would now somehow have flipped to alt-right, or that he would somehow be deceived by them. It is honestly weird to me how easily some people think it is to flip, as if just talking to someone would make someone become a fascist.

And I say all of this as someone who is skeptical of this whole strategy being proposed, but as someone who also thinks people should be able to propose dubious ideas without getting dogpiled, slandered, or purged. Clearly things are very bad in our current moment, and creating an atmosphere that punishes (or, for that matter, uncritically embraces) heterodox thinking is not helpful.