(CW:racism, ableism) From the blajah modlog
I'm trans and I really don't want to federated with these people if their mods are defending the -tard suffix and they aren't getting de-modded and banned. I also don't want to be federated with them if they ban critiquing western chauvinism.
Someone who is an admin and with more of a level head than me RN please talk to their admins about it.
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Another interesting snippet of the modlog. They're an "anarchist".
I try to be polite when I'm on Hexbear, because I know there are a few anarchist comrades around.
But this particular type of western "anarchist" is my absolute least favourite type of lib. Ignorant, smug, drunk on the tiniest bit of power they can get, projecting their own faults and character flaws onto the rest of humanity. Assuming everyone else is even more vile and shallow than they are. Absolute scumbags.
As our resident anarchist mod, trust me I agree with you. These people are not anarchists, they are liberals or outright fascists, they just don't know it or are acting in bad faith.
Seeing how many people firmly ensconsed in liberal politics have appropriated anarchism in name only is very upsetting. It creates bad blood on the left, and diverts potential comrades from reaching actual leftist information and politics.
I agree and it's the same as how more recently the whole maga communist/patriotic socialist thing has come about.
These people are not our comrades, though I have a bit more sympathy toward the misguided anarchists because I think their reactionary views are at least a bit more organic and just due to being immersed in a century of anti-communist propaganda.
I think tailism is also a pretty easy error to fall into as it happens repeatedly throughout history, but obviously some of them are just opportunistic fash grifters
"Anarchist" in the west is surprisingly often used to mean "Person who's given up making sense of life"
I think it's very much an online thing. Comrades I've met on the ground don't care about this aggressively online stuff. They're worried about feeding homeless neighbors, undermining the cops, and other pro-social community work.
Oh for sure, way too many people in the west think anarchism is just "chaos" or "nihilism" or something.
People here, even. Subconsciously perhaps. They've scaled back a bit since federation tho, thankfully.
It's a problem. We must not allow ourselves to become trapped by thinking everyone claiming Anarchy is a vaushite or one of the weird no politics twitter "anarchists". Re-fighting the battles of the 20th century breaks of the left without gaining anything. Battling each other over things dead people did a century ago in a radically different culture, economy, and geopolitical space with very different theory is not helpful.
If I ever say something stupid or transphobic I really hope people do call me out on it. I would hate to upset people and just keep doing it because I didn't even know it was a problem.
right? this is what gets me. if someone points out I'm being shitty to comrades, I'm grateful, not mad at the messenger.
As a former anarchist, this kind of 'anarchist' would have pissed me off when I was one myself, so don't worry.
It's the anarchist equiv of people who think they're leftists becase they voted for Obama
As an anarchist (specifically an anarcho communist), there are a lot of liberals who wear the label of anarchist but have fuck all idea what it means beyond some idea of edgy rebellion.
This isn't a new thing that's come about with the internet, gestures wildly at The Sex Pistols. But I feel that it has become more numerous in recent years.
On the plus side in all my years organising, the only times I've run into anyone IRL that acts like that, they've not been the sorts to directly interfere with how an org is run and thus don't do much to bog down movements in their crusade against socialists.
There was one that stood up during a BLM protest to make a speech that was a rattling tirade about "tankies", and I think that gives a cross section on these types.
Just purge the fucking mod, obviously they arent in a place to fairly moderate a community
Apparently they went to bat to die on the hill defending chasers in 196 to the degree that the head mod had to step in at some point, there's no way this person isn't a child
I'm always willing to bet on adults being shitty.
They won't get away with this
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Looks like you are in some trouble. Since we are friends, don't worry. I'll look the other way and take care of that fine for you.
Anarcho-NATO-Bidenism lol
Most likely an anarcho-bidenist
I hate how misused the term anarchism has become. The media has convinced people it just means "no rules" when it's really... Not that.
Anarchism is when you vote Biden, but wish you could vote Green.
Anti-oppression policy/anti-oppressive speech is a safeword for most anarchists, if anyone wants to take up the charge and drive critical consciousness in that mod team.