It was a dumb chud thing that was promoted and defended by several users of this site.
As far as Trump and Charlottesville, I didn't really consider that a real threat. Trump is an opportunist, not a fascist. And as abhorrent as Charlottesville was, white nationalism was never going to be the thing that fascists coalesce around. Most Americans don't believe themselves to be racist or part of a racist system. It will definitely be a feature later on, but it's not enough to build a movement on. Astroturfing as "anti-war" on the other hand does have the kind of reach necessary to build a large enough coalition to matter. That shit yesterday was straight out of the nazi playbook. Hold an event that's ostensibly anti-war and then sneak in thinly veiled attacks against trans people. It's extremely troubling.
What I am hearing is that there is already a bias either towards the party or this user in general. Full disclosure, I am part of the mod chat and sent a message about my post to the mod chat, but I will push for any discussion to happen here. As of yet, there hasn't been a reply.
As far as it being an overreaction, I obviously disagree. The outcome of the event today could have been easily predicted, and in fact was predicted by many users, including yourself. Today's events were likely to significantly harm a large portion of this site's users, which can't be helped. What is inexcusable is the event was promoted by this user, and then, to further the harm, anyone who questioned the promotion of the event was met with hostility and name-calling. That this behavior came from a moderator is unacceptable and risks the trust of the users of this site.
Fuck every single user of this website that defended this event. I hope your orgs crumble and the decent people there find their way to leftist orgs who would never promote this shit. Fucking pathetic.
To this, we can add the memories of the behavior of many people from Lima who rented rooms, apartments, or houses to people from the provinces, and who did not want to forgive them the rent (or lower the cost or postpone it) during the first phase of the pandemic, and began to evict them from their homes, causing an exodus of people from the Andes and the jungle back to their places of origin because of the quarantine. Likewise, some people were expelled from their homes “for fear of infection,” because the press (irresponsibly as usual) spread fear about COVID-19. On top of that, as they traveled in large groups on foot because transportation was prohibited for fear of contagion—and they were not even permitted to use their own transportation—police began to repress them at every checkpoint on the road. In addition, the inhabitants of some places, fearing exposure to the virus, also participated in this repression and in closing the roads through their territories
The middle ground is to go to the march on 3/18, which is organized by actual leftists. So funny that users of this site were calling anyone a "warmonger" and "online leftist" if you dared suggest that maybe these were bad people that should be avoided.
MFW I find out FreikorpsFest wasn't attended by principled anti-war activists, but rather people wanting to cheerlead Putin's offensive against globohomo.
You should cry if you need to, but absolutely don't feel dumb. It's your body, and it should align with how you feel about yourself. If it helps at all, I'm an afab person whose ovaries never developed properly. I've been on some form of HRT my whole adult life. Sometimes I feel less than, too. There's nothing wrong or weird about you at all.
Haven't heard that one, but the bio department at my school put a moratorium on removed blood typing because a student found out her dad wasn't her biological father.
By your own admission your org has been infiltrated since its inception.
An org that is currently platforming known reactionaries in Carlson/Gabbard/Hinkle.
An org which includes in its 8 principles of "unity" what amounts to an enemies list that lumps Maoists, Trots and anarchists in with petty bourgeois and capitalists.
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It was a dumb chud thing that was promoted and defended by several users of this site.
As far as Trump and Charlottesville, I didn't really consider that a real threat. Trump is an opportunist, not a fascist. And as abhorrent as Charlottesville was, white nationalism was never going to be the thing that fascists coalesce around. Most Americans don't believe themselves to be racist or part of a racist system. It will definitely be a feature later on, but it's not enough to build a movement on. Astroturfing as "anti-war" on the other hand does have the kind of reach necessary to build a large enough coalition to matter. That shit yesterday was straight out of the nazi playbook. Hold an event that's ostensibly anti-war and then sneak in thinly veiled attacks against trans people. It's extremely troubling.