In the first week of our #DSA100k recruitment drive, 2500 new members joined! Stand with our 75,000+ fellow members to organize for the election and beyond. https://t.co/WBWtgQ1LUQ pic.twitter.com/IBPqnQZapq— DSA 🌹 (@DemSocialists) October 9, 2020
Holy shit, I was in that chapter. We've probably met.
I left in May (yay graduation!), and I've still not decided what was up with that chapter. I'm like 65% sure that whole incident was an op by some folks who had decided to go Red Guard and smash the social fash.
As in, they'd literally been praising the KC Red Guard after that infamous photo of dweebs waiting for their turn on the Xbox, and then beating up a geriatric. Then a couple months later they tried to stay in leadership and wanted to purge the chapter.
But, some of the chapter leadership were definitely sus. I did some poking around after it all blew up, and decided just to quietly slide on to another state come graduation.
talking to the people who've been in DSA longer than me, it comes across as extremely "boys club" even if a lot of them are women or nonbinary. It seems to be self serving first and about membership action second.
i am still paying a monthly membership because this was basically just conjecture and i don't know for sure.
I'm in the seattle DSA and I think I heard about this. Are you too or is it just that prevalent?
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Holy shit, I was in that chapter. We've probably met.
I left in May (yay graduation!), and I've still not decided what was up with that chapter. I'm like 65% sure that whole incident was an op by some folks who had decided to go Red Guard and smash the social fash.
As in, they'd literally been praising the KC Red Guard after that infamous photo of dweebs waiting for their turn on the Xbox, and then beating up a geriatric. Then a couple months later they tried to stay in leadership and wanted to purge the chapter.
But, some of the chapter leadership were definitely sus. I did some poking around after it all blew up, and decided just to quietly slide on to another state come graduation.
talking to the people who've been in DSA longer than me, it comes across as extremely "boys club" even if a lot of them are women or nonbinary. It seems to be self serving first and about membership action second.
i am still paying a monthly membership because this was basically just conjecture and i don't know for sure.
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