Lots of "cultural anthropology" dead-enders are just the softest limb of US regime change operations

I thought that after their embarrassing participation in Bolivia's 2019 coup, some of them would have the decency to shut the fuck up, but they're still out there going at it
Here's a link to the turd of an article.

Why is this toad of a dude putting scare quotes around this description of Evo Morales?

What the hell?

>Anthropologist, doctoral candidate at UCSD.

😂
https://medium.com/@devin.beaulieu/the-invention-of-the-bolivian-lithium-conspiracy-theory-or-the-world-upside-down-17e5604f5a31
Imagine just sitting there, typing like you're not white, digging for anything that can snowballed into a media blitz, then into economic sanctions, then into war.

There really are people out there reading this bullshit and nodding along, truly unbelievable.
Dude is really out there alleging Evo is not just not-left, not just right, but that MAS is a *fascist party* 😂

The rat-like disclaimer at the end just makes the intent all the more obvious.
https://twitter.com/db_beaulieu/status/1314932731705462789
They always use this insanely wounded, tortured language about the importance of nuance, "uplifting voices", impenetrable complexity.

It's basically anti-Marxism: "I'm a Doctor, you cannot understand this, peasant. Don't even try!"
https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1194482826546208768
Here's a tip for those who have the skills: Rather than go around bullying people into silence and breaking solidarity, go out find those "voices" and actually uplift them.

Here's what I was doing back in November '19: https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1194133922378133505
These people were bravely fighting a Christian Fascist coup that had the full support of the US empire, and these academics were going around chastising anyone who dared speak in solidarity with them! https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1195728173385814019
This is not a Bolivian or Latin American phenomenon, it's happening all over.

If you wouldn't trust someone's "friend from Florida" as final authority on US politics, don't do it for people of other places either! https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1311661723498295296
Read carefully, underline important parts, and ask questions about them.

This was a rather blockbuster, hotly-shared article about China a while back, and I just couldn't believe how little discussion there was about the qualifiers in it. https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1311001469911478272
That one was published in "ChuangCN" journal, about Xinjiang.

This next one was published in "MadeInChina" journal. https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1296553331633029120
Postsocialist anthropology conjures up impenetrable shrouds, hyping up the role of the jetsetting "interpreter" as essential authority.

Marxists believe that any random person can understand the main driving forces of society, such as US imperialism.
https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1313258021909409803
I love when random Bolivian fascists drop by and try to make their case
https://mobile.twitter.com/Marcelopchc/status/1316211360750022657
This is a Professor from Shizuoka University in Japan sharing a doctored clip that overlays a bartering conversation from a Chinese market with a video of a young girl, and makes up a story about human slave trade. https://twitter.com/DcZ2sppUAxLS3nO/status/1317687548035002370
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