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Fine, one last thing before I go back to work; there's a REALLY good article on Truthout today I want to talk about... first however, and I want to be clear that I'm not speaking to the author of that horrible creatures article, OR the guy who shared it; I'm talking to you folks whose fundamentals are bad enough to buy the common reactionary propaganda idea that "these kids never forgive anyone/they don't allow people to grow and learn/cancel culture is about social death." So let's talk about three reasons why this is nonsense:

A) first of all, none of these people ever grow. They demand forgiveness, without atonement; in many cases they do not even apologize for the reason they got "cancelled" or asked to leave collectives/scenes. Typically they retreat to the internet to write blog skreds about how everyone else is Hitler and they are still right. There are plenty of anarchists, who used to believe reactionary things; there are even antifascists, who used to be reactionary thugs - it's possible to come back, but it's on YOU not everyone else, to make that happen. I myself used to say nice things about Glenn Greenwald because my fundamentals SUCKED; it's not been a problem because I admitted *I* was the problem, and got better. You should fucking try it sometime.

B) nobody actually OWES you forgiveness. If you did shitty things, there's a chance some people are just not gonna forgive you; in my experience this sort of scales with HOW shitty, violent, and dangerous the reactionary things you did were. The correct response to this is to shrug, apologize again, and go on with your life. The correct response is not to try and convince every other pinko in your scene that the person still upset at you is cancer and should be driven out; the latter response, suggests that you have not actually changed.

C) you literally have no fucking clue what social death is. None. Zilch. Zero. You folks are talking about being kicked out of scenes, activists groups, and social networks, because you did a reaction. Nobody killed you. Nobody erased you. Nobody chased you out of public life with threats of violence. You have not been "un-personed" - you have been "unfriended" and the fact that you do not know the fucking difference, is part of why you're here.

Kthanx. Going back to work now.