Warning: extremely toxic thread
I thought there was an antiwork community here? Anyways I'm not sure where to put this. Just kinda sucks that the interview didn't go well and that people are shitting on this person and misgendering her for not being a white male factory worker or something.
/r/antiwork is kind of in shambles rn because the mods are trying keep the discourse from spinning out of control but a ton of people there are being transphobic and turning on the mods, and of course the mods are being accused of being authoritarian for trying to run the sub.
I hope the sub can bounce back, but it's a dark day in there for sure.
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The moderator named "AbolishWork" did. The community voted to have no interviews whatsoever with the media, so it's a case of a moderator seizing the moment to do whatever that was.
I think the problem is, a moderator went AWOL, and there is no real coherent ideology behind r/antiwork anymore so there's nothing to defend there. I think it was vaguely anarchist in the past but it has become a general labor grievance subreddit. It is a place to radicalize people into leftists, but has no real agenda or movement of people behind it besides posting. They've honestly been behind some labor destructive things (this incident not included) like the fake general strikes that have gotten people to pester the IWW with redditors who wound up not actually being interested in organizing.
The mods are anti-tankie anarchists who think "MLs are just ignorant of mutual aid". It's not surprising something like this happened.
I question if they're even anarchists, they just seem to be kids raised on social media and they post "GENERAL STRIKE ON 4/20/69 MARK UR CALENDARS" and expect that to be the extent of labor organizing necessary. Flash mob labor organizing.
The fact even these idiots managed to get a sub that big without it imploding long before now is a good sign that people are becoming aware. Lots of good energy building up.
the recuperation of the term anarchist is awful tbh. Typical fash/lib shit, twisting terms until they're completely useless for discourse and just make everything incoherent where you can't talk about issues accurately but ugh its obnoxious.
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Sectarianism is based? :thonk:
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It sucks because my discovery of /r/antiwork a few years ago was key to my movement leftward.
Things like antiwork come and go. I remember when I thought Occupy Wall St was really gonna go somewhere!