Thinking a lot this morning about a talk I heard by @akareilly last night and parallels it has in other leftist/anarchist culture.
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ACAB, but guess what. You know who knows BETTER THAN ANYONE how useless cops are? Sexual assault survivors. You know who needs to be told LESS THAN ANYONE about police attacking victims? Sexual assault survivors.
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The last thing a survivor needs is a fucking leftist lecture on the cops. Meanwhile, anarchist abuses easily migrate from one space to another with few repercussions when they are chased out. Kicking the can isn't actually restorative justice.
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This is true in tech activism and it is true in other activist spaces as well. Just look at the recent Redneck Revolt debacle.
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If you're not fighting patriarchy, you're not fighting the system, because the system *is* patriarchy. They are inseparable.
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