'He's too smart to be this stupid just from a lack of reading/information' - yes, and it's not like people in the nitter comments haven't pointed him in the direction of reality, albeit not very gently a lot of the time. Which for me means a refusal to look beyond surface-level hasbara and msm talking points. As Jensen wrote:

'It is not necessary that the lies be particularly believable. The lies act as barriers to truth.' - https://derrickjensen.org/language-older-than-words/language-bodies-dreams/

But as for why... I don't really know. An insult he routinely tosses out is 'NPC' (ie: non-playing-character, video game reference) using it as a way to dismiss arguments made by people who out themselves as woke (as he sees it) in their nitter descriptions. eg:

'BLM, Free Palestine and pronouns in the bio. You are an NPC and I claim my fifty quid' - https://nitter.poast.org/Glinner/status/1774619525058830820#m

I mean, fair play, I tend to do the same thing for people with Ukraine or Israel flags, or indeed pronouns. But it's cheap, and doesn't engage with the arguments presented. Also, the fact that a certain segment of 'woke', idpol-focused liberals have latched on to Palestine as an issue doesn't mean that they're the only ones invested, or that you can safely ignore what's happening in Gaza because your enemies are also talking about it, therefore they must be lying, ignorant, or speaking in bad faith because that's what they did on the trans rights issue. Could it be that he's simply triggered by their response and has taken a contrary position just to spite them or because he can't admit that they might be right about something? I mean, that would be incredibly petty and immature, but it's a tried and tested approach, and maybe hard to avoid if the opposing tribe in the culture war is giving you constant plaudits for doing it.

On Ken's 'secret racist' theory, I wouldn't know, but I'd be surprised. It would be interesting to see how he responded to the war on terror, or if he came out in support of the Afghanistan invasion because 'women'. Either way, he's exposed as a full blown racist by his stance on this now.

cheers,
I