Is it bad faith for intellectuals to write about historical events without
> taking up a gun?
No, but they might avoid shrieking denunciations of everyone else for not doing things they were perfectly capable of doing themselves.
"How can something like this happen and still be almost entirely ignored by the international community, even, largely, by the International left?" Graeber pontificates. "Is the world – and this time most scandalously of all, the international left – really going to be complicit in letting history repeat itself?"
If Graber had wanted to write about this a month or two years ago, would he not have had as ready a platform and as broad an audience as any of us, or most others who can be called part of "the international left"? Or does he have some sterling record of Kurdish solidarity work of which I'm unaware?
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."