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   Robbie Norlyn, Author 👾 (robertnorlyn@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 08:40:13 JST Robbie Norlyn, Author 👾

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   • Fifi Lamoura

   @fifilamoura I agree with this assessment of Kolectiva. There are a lot of say that they are one thing and doing an entirely different thing that is problematic types.

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     Fifi Lamoura (fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 08:40:14 JST Fifi Lamoura

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     It's always the cishet men who think murdering and dehumanizing other people is awesome. This is exactly the technique of fascism, binary thinking and othering is used to dehumanize other people who are different and this facilitates violence (and the people doing this just want to be at the top of a hierarchy, whether they're honest about that or not....cue the purges for not being "pure" enough, another feature of fascism).

     This is why I'm not interested in self declared male anarchists who aren't also feminists (in the most practical sense). It's just more patriarchal violent bullshit and I'd bet half these dudes are rapists (yes, anarchist scenes can have problems with rapists and people who want to be charismatic leaders, in fact it attracts those people because they can prey on other people's empathy and position themselves as victims). Anyway, this is why I've often suspected that Kolectiva is likely a hotbed of all kinds of covert ops types and probably even a few white supremacist accelerationists.

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     Fifi Lamoura (fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 08:40:17 JST Fifi Lamoura

     While I don't believe in wasting empathy on fascists, when I see people posting "fascists aren't people" stuff I feel sick to my stomach because this kind of dehumanization of people we hate (even if they hate us) is fascist thinking. Fascists are people, terrible people who wish or don't care if they do the rest of us harm, but still human beings. This doesn't mean we have to indulge them, it just means that when we dehumanize other people we are in the process of becoming fascists ourselves (no matter how loudly we yell "freedom"). Freedom comes with responsibilities if you're not a fascist and one of those responsibilities is to recognize that we're all human, even the people we don't like or who may want to kill us.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.