Laura Jedeed (Misanthrophile)

Maybe it's inappropriate to center my feelings like this. But I'm real sad. And I feel guilty, like maybe if I'd been more articulate or pushed harder for her to interview other people or....something, maybe she wouldn't have written it like this Like I'm guilty by association

Rather than people involved in the movement, Stockman relies almost entirely on the conspiratorial ramblings of someone with no credibility whatsoever. @IGD_News breaks down the problems with Quinn as a source here:https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/1311560820757729280?s=19 …

She also cites an excellent article from @crimethinc as evidence of a planned conspiracy, when in fact the article describes the things that happened in Minneapolis and observes what made those actions successful. Nowhere does it claim top-down coordination of events

(Stockman cites a Rutgers white paper as well and I'm gonna have to put on my social-science hat and decipher it. I'll do it soon. Maybe it's great, but suffice it to say I have questions)

Stockman responded to these critiques by claiming the article gives insurrectionary anarchists credit for boosting the cause, which is one way to read it I guess Another way to look at it would be that she's making a case for leftist to be considered domestic terrorists

The idea that a vast and highly-coordinated conspiracy theory by anarchists deliberately introduced insurrectionary tactics into the BLM movement for their own nefarious purposes places everyone in the movement at risk It also undermines the agency or Black people on the ground

Stockman expressed to me a desire to write a follow-up piece that centers the voices of Black anarchists Forgive me if my trust in that ever happening in a responsible manner is gone

Stockman stressed that she's only human and just trying to understand, which, again, is one perspective Another perspective would be that she has an enormous platform and, if she's still trying to understand something, she should maybe not write a whole fucking article about it