Its a shame because they’re prominent voice on lemmy. Good on the admins for not tolerating this. I don’t understand the point of targeting a person you don’t like on the internet just because they said something that upset you and spamming their post with downvotes. If you don’t like someone block their ass and be done with it. I agree with the perspective that its harassment (and an incredibly petty ineffective form of it at that)
Parenti is a hack whose scholarship is not just sloppy but outright atrocious; unsurprising, though, that you would cite a literal genocide denier as your source.
Rockhill is a fucking lunatic who thinks Zizek is a CIA plant.
As is Chomsky[1][2].
I don’t know why “genocide denial” is your go-to, because I’m sure you’d vociferously deny this one, so you know that not every such accusation is necessarily true.
Rockhill doesn’t actually say that, though neither he nor I would be surprised if he is. Plant or not, Žižek is an unserious grifter, a clown, a radical recuperator. I’m not surprised that you’d tacitly defend him; you two seem to have a lot in common. It’s a lucrative grift; maybe you should look into that.