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He's completely on the money this time and I don't understand why it's controversial. The level of outage over this has completely exposed how little the US "left" cares about the lives of non Americans. Even when it's the same regime carrying out both actions, this one completely overshadowed the news and discussion while scores of innocent people in Venezuela were killed within goldfish memory. He's making a remark about the lack of empathy they have for the third world, not condemning them for caring about this incident. Ideological consistency should be something every real leftist follows, and if you see all human lives as equal you would have been a hundred times more aggressive and outraged over Venezuela than what many of these people clearly have shown themselves to be.
He ends it with "it's truly hopeless..." when there absolutely have been anti-imperialist organizing efforts (he just ignores that to make it a contest of priorities and say that nobody in the US cares and never will). Worth noting that 2020 was marked by protests sparked by the extrajudicial murder of George Floyd, a black man, so claiming it's only about the death of a "white" person is also erasing even recent history of a similar nature; this incident is tied not just to the death of a white woman, but also to the perception of ICE and its racist campaign.
That said, there are for sure valid criticisms to make of the USian "left". We could spend all day on it and more, and some seem to want to do that right now rather than take advantage of the conditions to improve the situation. But he isn't even doing that. He's hashing together a narrative that trivializes and denies any liberation efforts in the US at all and derides it as hopeless.
I don't know how else to explain this. There is a difference between principled criticism and fatalistic erasure.
It seems to me that the US "left" has been outraged about foreign lives being taken all along, the difference is that the US center is finally mad about something, and they are much louder.
What's controversial is that people are assuming he's talking about the left when he's kind of talking about the US at large as far as I can tell (and this is still a largely English language platform). Not that BE ain't insufferable, a hot take merchant and needlessly confrontational at times but he ain't wrong. If this hadn't happened libs would still be arguing that he should have asked for congressional approval.