not a perfect analysis, since Mickey is only human, but some worthwhile thoughts from a queer ND leftist therapist

edit: the stuff about how this behavior can echo that of the evangelical church made me realize how much of my experience the past few months had awakened religious trauma for me and was a huge catalyst for lessening my activity on this site.

  • dustbunnies [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 days ago

    I understood her argument as advocating for opting first for calling-in with other leftists and well-intentioned others, not as advocating for never calling-out anyone ever.

    I understood her to mean that calling-in can reinforce community behavioral expectations in an educational and edifying way, while calling out is often exclusionary and punitive and can accidentally reinforce oppressive systems, so we should call-in within our communities.

    if this interpretation is incorrect, or if it is correct but the thesis is problematic in some way, please lmk. I will delete the post.

    • onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      i think it's a good discussion, and i agree with your interpretation and the message of her video. i don't think either you or she did anything wrong.

      i was venting frustrations about recent events in my life related to the subject, because i and others in my org have been accused of being too 'rigid' or 'unrealistic' on principles like anticapitalism, and that we're 'driving away' potential membership by not being more 'moderate' in our politics.

      this isn't a new experience for me, and so i was looking for a sanity check. i don't know where healthy gatekeeping ends and purity politics begins, but OrionsMasks's comment gave me something to think about.