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It immensely frustrates me that I *want* to get involved in effectively (locally) organizing against fascism, but I cannot do that on my own and almost everyone I talk to either:
1) Is completely politically apathetic and uninterested in doing literally any work to improve things to begin with,
2) Fails to pass even the most basic intersectionality test (usually in the form of holding differently-bigoted beliefs and absolutely refusing to introspect on them),
3) Is completely uninterested in any kind of creative strategizing, insistently sticking to the same three strategies that haven't worked for decades and that just burn out participants, or
4) Just outright doesn't have the energy/spoons to be actively involved, usually due to disability (which I obviously don't blame them for, but from a practical perspective it doesn't help to get things moving).
Like, it shouldn't be this difficult to find even a few people who are genuinely interested in making things happen, and have the energy to do so to at least some degree?
(This is in the Netherlands, to be clear)
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Oh, there's one more variant: local 'anarchist' meetings that ostensibly exist for organizing and meeting new people to work with, but which have exactly zero COVID safety guidelines and which pretend that the pandemic is over, and so I cannot even safely attend them
@gsuberland @gsuberland @joepie91 when i meet other activists irl i dont call myself an anarchist partially because of this
so many "anarchists" are either ableists or puritans and it makes it so hard to use the label to reference what it actually means
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@joepie91 lol I swear anarchist groups fail the most basic vibe checks when it comes to ableism 90% of the time, like how the biggest anarchist fedi instance has one of the lowest prevalences of alt text usage. so much of it reads like small-group libertarian individualism.