I've considered discussing with the mods the idea we should start removing dunks on "twitter anarchists". Yeah yeah we all agree they're bad takes but at some point it doesn't feel very comradely.
The real anarchists aren’t on twitter :think-about-it:
Nah but there is an unfortunate situation here semantically. Like the majority of the people on twitter/Reddit calling themselves anarchists are mostly liberals who are flirting with the aesthetic, maybe tangentially the idea of anticapitalism as a signifier without doing any sort of serious thinking or reconciling a life of brainworm propaganda with it. I don’t think they really constitute “anarchist” in the same way that those that hang out here or I’ve met irl do, tho this does feel a bit gatekeep-y I think it’s something quantifiable
we’ve had these types stumble their way here before and I’ve seen anarchist comrades here be like “youre not an anarchist you’re a liberal”
I also think a lot of these people are pretty young, college age and younger so still trying to figure shit out, so that’s another element.
Idk I don’t think there’s a simple answer bc it’s kind of tangled bc of the co-opting of anarchist label and aesthetics but also clearly a lot of anarchists here don’t love it when we dunk on them using the word even with modifiers like twitter-anarchist. I’m in favor of what makes people feel comfortable generally,
Just so we're all clear, this is a 2-day old account posting "le Twitter anarchists" stuff and commenting "but muh Hungary wasn't in the USSR's borders" in another thread to piss off the MLs.
I've considered discussing with the mods the idea we should start removing dunks on "twitter anarchists". Yeah yeah we all agree they're bad takes but at some point it doesn't feel very comradely.
The real anarchists aren’t on twitter :think-about-it:
Nah but there is an unfortunate situation here semantically. Like the majority of the people on twitter/Reddit calling themselves anarchists are mostly liberals who are flirting with the aesthetic, maybe tangentially the idea of anticapitalism as a signifier without doing any sort of serious thinking or reconciling a life of brainworm propaganda with it. I don’t think they really constitute “anarchist” in the same way that those that hang out here or I’ve met irl do, tho this does feel a bit gatekeep-y I think it’s something quantifiable
we’ve had these types stumble their way here before and I’ve seen anarchist comrades here be like “youre not an anarchist you’re a liberal”
I also think a lot of these people are pretty young, college age and younger so still trying to figure shit out, so that’s another element.
Idk I don’t think there’s a simple answer bc it’s kind of tangled bc of the co-opting of anarchist label and aesthetics but also clearly a lot of anarchists here don’t love it when we dunk on them using the word even with modifiers like twitter-anarchist. I’m in favor of what makes people feel comfortable generally,
Just so we're all clear, this is a 2-day old account posting "le Twitter anarchists" stuff and commenting "but muh Hungary wasn't in the USSR's borders" in another thread to piss off the MLs.
Oh cool lol
Removed by mod
But it's so fun!