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In late 2020 Gebru co-authored “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots,” a paper warning that ever-larger language models would launder bias, devour energy and mimic understanding they did not possess. Google’s management demanded she withdraw it or strip the Google authors’ names. She refused, set conditions, and left for a holiday. Her superiors announced they had accepted a resignation she says she never tendered. On 2 December 2020 she was gone. More than two thousand six hundred employees signed a letter of protest; directors and engineers resigned in her wake.

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There is a peculiar cruelty in watching a people turn their sharpest weapons upon themselves. The essay that follows refuses to look away from it. Professor Girma Berhanu writes as both a student of the affliction and one of the wounded by it. What he offers is not a reaction to a passing controversy but the distillation of several years of ethnographic observation — the reckoning of a man who has watched the pile-ons gather, absorbed the insults, and counted the reputations dismantled by people who claim to be defending the very cause they are hollowing out. The question he cannot put down has been pressed on him by a Tigrayan friend and an Oromo colleague alike, and he confesses he has never answered it well: why do those who call themselves Amhara so often turn on other Amhara with a ferocity they rarely muster against their actual adversaries? The Tribune publishes this reflection because that question has become impossible to avoid. As Fano’s struggle for Amhara survival, dignity and security intensifies, so too does a corrosive war within — waged not on any battlefield but on YouTube channels and social-media timelines, where activists, journalists, intellectuals and rising leaders are discredited long before anyone in government need lift a finger. The author is careful to draw the distinction the movement so often forgets: between criticism and sabotage, between disagreement and character assassination, between honest rivalry and collective self-destruction. Not every attack is an act of infiltration, and healthy movements need dissent as much as they need discipline. But when a cause devours its own potential leaders as a matter of routine, the failure ceases to be a private grievance. It becomes a political one.