After the recent struggle session which resulted in
CW: It’s pretty self indulgent considering the gravity of the actual situation.
I am left disquieted due to various people who represented zionists positions directly or held space for these. Particularly (but not only) those who are admins and mods. People who think the above image is a “holocaust flag”. And otherwise seem to have conjured a fictious form of anti semitism, just for deploying here.
Well OK maybe it is allowed to give people a week or a month to mull things over and reconsider their positions. But do we come back to it? Or should I just seethe with resentment, hold a grudge, and snipe about other things going forward?
On the other hand, the majority & plurality were on the correct side of things. So that’s good. I just… Idk I don’t expect hegemony but this is literally such a simple issue. I don’t know how anyone who feels different could feel comfortable on this site. it’s like learning mods/admins are triggered by a guillotine.
In some ways it could be “the fighting is so fierce because the stakes are so low”. (The stakes = emojis)
But on the other hand, the stakes are so huge and this is just the scale of fighting that’s near at hand.
Nobody ever accused me of being perfect and well behaved so maybe I’m just throwing stones from a glass house. I explicitly must consent to whatever critique in that regard.
I would like to suggest that on the new user signup page the question be changed to read
What are your views on GSM / LGBTQ rights, racial justice, animal liberation,
Although I have no idea what sort of answers people make to these. So maybe it’s stupid.
Fucking shit. People are fucking being fucking murdered right at this fucking moment.
I was going to type a genuine suggestion, comedically framed as being a “Down to the countryside” sort of labor program for PMC (Posting Managerial Class) parasites to develop the correct class character, but I’m not gonna leave it to anyone’s terrible reading comprehension to interpret correctly.
Since the common reaction to being caught enforcing a bad take is “mhmm, maybe, but who cares? there’s important stuff to be done” you should put them to work doing that important stuff. (punitively) make them do book reports, research, reflections on IRL organizing and maybe that can remind them the difference between cultivating cutesy posts on an account that makes you feel respected and important, and actually participating in the struggle for socialism.
I don’t understand what you are suggesting, is it that anyone that makes a mistake on a mod action needs to write a book report, research effort post, or something to that effect?
In my opinion those, like self-crit posts, should just be made on their own without having the punitive aspect attached to it, in addition a mod/admin posting about irl organizing is exposing them to the doxxing/death threats we received before.
no- well yes, but also anyone who doesn’t make mistakes should also write a book report. everyone writes a book report. or they write about something else, if they’re smart enough to do it without doxxing themselves.
I agree we could use more effort-posting, I have a lot of respect for the people leading and participating in the book clubs.