Please note, this is a proposal, not a passed resolution. And I have no idea how many members it would take to submit a resolution, so it could be two weirdos or have huge internal chapter support.

Edit: It appears I have started a struggle session. I apologise.

For the record, my own view on this is that it is well intentioned, but extremely poorly designed and (likely) to be poorly implemented as well. In one of my comments below, I say "I don’t think DSA, a predominantly white and PMC organization, is at all equipped to handle this in a way that doesn’t create more problems. To me, it would make more sense to have a Black socialist org be given the $ to do as they see fit, if this is a path the chapter votes on. It screams of white guilt rather than building power, and individual charity rather than mutual aid.". AFROSOC is an internal DSA org, as I understand it.

And I feel this is a textbook example of "charity vs mutual aid", with this decidedly being charity.

  • hauntingspectre [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    It's so perfectly radlib it's hard to not think well meaning weirdos in the chapter came up with it on their own.

    I imagine any COINTELPRO types would dismiss it as "too obvious".

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I don't know, their infiltration of right-wing militias seems to be mostly "hello fellow white people how about let's film ourselves training to do crimes and then do crimes."

      • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        They are pretty hapless. At least the FBI. I used to joke that if Pete was the CIA candidate, then Tulsi was the directionless incoherent FBI candidate