Matt Cropp 🌲🌲May 2, 2017

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/

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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?
May 2, 2017 at 4:24amWeb
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Chances are that the Worst Kind of Asshole got to that position with full knowledge of what they were building and why.