I'm not able to post on the thread about anarchists and organisations, but for the record -
I was not calling 'charlie mowbray' a paedophile (as he claims). I was saying that he bears an uncanny resemblance to the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And I didn't intend to get personal with people, but was soon on the recieving end of dishonest bile, with people getting personal about my friend and portraying them in a dishonest way.
In anycase, it's a shame that certain people take honest criticism of certain formal organisations as a personal attack on them, and then proceeded to initiate personal attacks, lies and ganged up. It's pathetic.
And yet I'm the one who gets banned. I very much doubt theres any point in me continuing to post on the political threads on here anymore, just as I suspected. And what I said about the ACG and the ACN was 100% true and it's a fact that the ACG has a problem with transphobia.
The two ACG members in question were blatantly anti-trans and were full of praise for both Helen Steel and her transphobic hate. Part of the ACG's 'nuanced' position was supposed to be that it disagreed with how Helen Steel was treated at the 2017 London Anarchist Bookfair, and the behaviour of some TRA's and the liberal/extreme IdPol types, but also didn't agree with or tolerate the transphobia of the likes of Helen Steel.
The ACG clearly went against this and clearly does allow transphobic bigotry amongst it's membership and clearly doesn't care about trans people, which resulted in people leaving.
I would say that the ACG is class reductionist in a sense. They hardly ever focus on oppressed groups, particularly LGBTQ+ people and ethnic minorities. Their mishandling of their transphobia problem is also typical of class reductionists.
Class identitarianism often goes hand in hand with class reductionism. By identitarianism I mean viewing the working class in a certain way, idealizing them and attaching certain characteristics to them. There are definitey those in the anarchist mileu who do this, including some people in the ACG. But to be fair, it is much more distinct and noticeable with someone like Lisa McKenzie ( and that anarcho-UKIP type politics).
Anyway, I doubt this post is going to be received in a serious or friendly way. I'm gonna log out now and focus my attention elsewhere. I also don't want to spend alot of time in an online space that signal boosts the likes of the ACG (and lets such people promote themselves) and clearly doesn't give a monkeys about transphobia, as has been proven time and time again. An online space where shit politics has always ruled the roost (and where general stupidity, mob hatred, groupthink and pompous masturbation is dominant).
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