If someone said ‘if there are nothing but a bunch of racist bigots in flippanarchy, I don’t want any part of it!’ then all people would see is ‘there are racists in flippanarchy’.
Anarchy is not abelist, racist, sexist or homophobic in its very nature. There is zero point in making this signalling gesture, all it does is imply no-smoke-without-fire assumptions.
Thats why I am downvoting. It would be like me saying ‘if lyrial is a rapist, I want nothing to do with them’.
But anarchists are, again and again. And since there’s no perfect anarchy anywhere but always just striving towards it, it’s necessary to point out blind spots. Dismissing that criticism as signalling is ignoring the fact that we have to learn anarchy, it doesn’t just come to us in it’s perfect form.
I appreciate that, but it’s redundant to the point of being unhelpful.
It would be like reminding BLM that racism is bad.
The very point of anarchy is to remove these social hierarchies.
“Hey there, Defund The Police forum - just to let you know that if you aren’t for police reform, you aren’t my friend!”
Anarchy has to be many things and some are more often overlooked than others. Some of the replies here show exactly that pointing it out is necessary.
Having all possible aspects of anarchy combined is a rather theoretical thing IMHO. There can always be new things which are used to discriminate people for and create hierarchies around - identifying and overcoming them has to be constant anarchist praxis.
You are talking as if this post just discovered ‘Excluding Disabled People’.
When discrimination arises, it does so in opposition to anarchism. Anarchy doesn’t need its terms and conditions updating. We learn how to implement it, we don’t gush over tweets that read like ‘does anyone else think being shitty to disabled people is bad or is it just me?’ That just draws anarchism into the most superficial part of the culture-war.
I genuinely apologise if I sound strangely ticked off by this, but I have an admittedly-unhealthy issue with anarchy being used as a means of scoring good-boy points on social media.
If someone said ‘if there are nothing but a bunch of racist bigots in flippanarchy, I don’t want any part of it!’ then all people would see is ‘there are racists in flippanarchy’.
Anarchy is not abelist, racist, sexist or homophobic in its very nature. There is zero point in making this signalling gesture, all it does is imply no-smoke-without-fire assumptions.
Thats why I am downvoting. It would be like me saying ‘if lyrial is a rapist, I want nothing to do with them’.
But anarchists are, again and again. And since there’s no perfect anarchy anywhere but always just striving towards it, it’s necessary to point out blind spots. Dismissing that criticism as signalling is ignoring the fact that we have to learn anarchy, it doesn’t just come to us in it’s perfect form.
I appreciate that, but it’s redundant to the point of being unhelpful. It would be like reminding BLM that racism is bad. The very point of anarchy is to remove these social hierarchies.
“Hey there, Defund The Police forum - just to let you know that if you aren’t for police reform, you aren’t my friend!”
Like, what are we doing here?
Anarchy has to be many things and some are more often overlooked than others. Some of the replies here show exactly that pointing it out is necessary.
Having all possible aspects of anarchy combined is a rather theoretical thing IMHO. There can always be new things which are used to discriminate people for and create hierarchies around - identifying and overcoming them has to be constant anarchist praxis.
You are talking as if this post just discovered ‘Excluding Disabled People’. When discrimination arises, it does so in opposition to anarchism. Anarchy doesn’t need its terms and conditions updating. We learn how to implement it, we don’t gush over tweets that read like ‘does anyone else think being shitty to disabled people is bad or is it just me?’ That just draws anarchism into the most superficial part of the culture-war.
I genuinely apologise if I sound strangely ticked off by this, but I have an admittedly-unhealthy issue with anarchy being used as a means of scoring good-boy points on social media.