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What is your opinion on The Grayzone? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by ComradeCircuit@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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For your information, it was founded in 2015 and is edited by Max Blumenthal, and a notable former editor and reporter is Ben Norton (he left The Grayzone in 2022 to form Geopolitical Economy Report). And on Wikipedia, I saw they list The Grayzone is pro-China, Pro-Russia and pro-Ba'athist Syria (and far-left fringe site too). So, what is your thought on The Grayzone?

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[–] Razia@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Back when I used to watch them, I found that Max himself and others under the greyzone umbrella are outright transphobic.

There are some examples in this article: https://socialistcurrents.org/?p=4428

I noticed this on some of their videos on youtube as well. I think that they do valuable reporting on a number of anti-imperialist causes, particularly with respect to Palestine, but I'm not going to watch people regularly who are outright bigoted against trans people like me.

Ben Norton does great work though, I watch him regularly, the Geopolitical Economy Report is well researched and well presented and I've yet to get a whiff of this sort of bigotry from him. Glad he went his own way.