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Where is the misreading?

They give a weak defense of Kurdish detainment camps by comparing it to other things that could have happened to the prisoners - the section is filled with qualifiers such as "Relative to the brutality carried out by most of the other actors in the region, the SDF and related groups in Rojava have been comparatively restrained" and "The detainment of ISIS fighters along with women and children from the Islamic State is hardly the worst thing that could have happened."

Sure they preface it by giving a largely unelaborated mention of having qualms with what's going on in Rojava, but this hasn't been articulated at all by crimethinc. at any point in the many years that this has been going on. A charitable reading of their apology for not being "courageous or organized enough" to support the general fight against Assad primary by the poor Sunni majority in the country is that they include under lacking courage their (and many other anarchists) not really being invested in anything outside of the Rojava bubble for many long years.