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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2021-08-15

"I wonder if perhaps one of the impediments to folks accepting anarchism is that to accept that people are capable of offering care in community w/o coercion is to accept that the people in their life could have done so and chose not to." -- Your Friendly Butch Anarchist ([twitter.com profile] butchanarchy), 2021-08-11

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posted by [personal profile] gingicat at 12:48pm on 2021-08-15
Well, yes.
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posted by [personal profile] dewline at 03:49pm on 2021-08-15
Yeah. This.
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 09:51pm on 2021-08-15
I can't figure out what "accepting anarchism" could possibly mean that this makes sense. It seems to be saying that people who have been abused are dumb for knowing that betrayal is a possibility when you trust people.

ETA: It simultaneously insults abused people by suggesting the reason they don't agree with the speaker ("accept anarchism") is because they're too damaged to realize the speaker's position is a good one, and insults abused people by suggesting the reason they're too damaged to agree is because they're too dumb to realize that their abusers had agency and chose to use it to abuse.
Edited Date: 2021-08-15 09:57 pm (UTC)
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posted by [personal profile] extraarcha at 03:21pm on 2021-08-16
accepting anarchism is a total misdirection, and it doesn't even have the pretense of being intentional misdirection.
The original state of things is anarchy. It doesn't work.
Everything else of 'community' or 'society' is an attempt to find a way for people to be safe living together.

Your Friendly Butch Anarchist is living in a private dream world where a known unworkable thing is the 'shiny toy' used to self-distract. The actual world around this person is one of the less than perfect attempts to move from anarchy to dealing with the real world.
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