amusingly/depressingly, last time I talked to Emmett Rensin on here, he chastised me for criticizing Freddie deBoer.
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the two are having a back and forth, if you missed it. Rensin has a long and thoughtful piece on political violence:http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/07/from-mother-jones-to-middlebury-the-problem-and-promise-of-political-violence-in-trumps-america/ …
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fdb has a fundamentally unserious response which devolves into juvenlie taunts suggesting that you can't talk about violence
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fwiw, I interviewed
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just quickly; both Rensin and fdb create dichotomy between people who talk about violence and the actual perpetrators in protest.
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Rensin says black bloc protestors don't read pundits talking about violence; FDB argues that praxis should be getting offline and organziing
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it makes me wonder...who do these people talk to online?
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my experience is that there are people who organize and participate in protests on here.
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more, there are people who perpetrate violence on here. you can do more real damage doxxing someone than a single punch.
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the best part is Beijer was making a point that "economic violence" of boycotting/blacklisting is identical to punching
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which in fact means that violent action gets organized all the time on here
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