Matt Cropp (now @ social.coop)May 2, 2017
Matt Cropp 🌲🌲

In a world where #authoritarian relations are the norm (online and off), learning how to relate to each other in liberated, #selfgoverned spaces is hard. We internalize so much behavior that's adaptive for our survival under authoritarianism, but turns incredibly #toxic when enacted in free spaces.

There's much learning & unlearning to do, and the struggles of earlier radical projects & spaces have much to teach #Mastodon.

https://emmibe.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/the-conversations-we-cant-have/

May 2, 2017 at 2:05amWeb
Show threadnthpowerMay 2, 2017
Much of the time though, you need look no further than the center limelight of your community movements. Just ask, who would I feel unable to question? Who do I feel like has enough power to get away with something? Who do I feel afraid to have a needed conversation about? Does this person have a partner whose social capital almost entirely relies on their connection to this social capitalist?
Show threadnthpowerMay 2, 2017
Chances are that the Worst Kind of Asshole got to that position with full knowledge of what they were building and why.