I’m trans and I really don’t want to federated with these people if their mods are defending the -tard suffix and they aren’t getting de-modded and banned. I also don’t want to be federated with them if they ban critiquing western chauvinism.
Someone who is an admin and with more of a level head than me RN please talk to their admins about it.
As an anarchist (specifically an anarcho communist), there are a lot of liberals who wear the label of anarchist but have fuck all idea what it means beyond some idea of edgy rebellion.
This isn’t a new thing that’s come about with the internet, gestures wildly at The Sex Pistols. But I feel that it has become more numerous in recent years.
On the plus side in all my years organising, the only times I’ve run into anyone IRL that acts like that, they’ve not been the sorts to directly interfere with how an org is run and thus don’t do much to bog down movements in their crusade against socialists.
There was one that stood up during a BLM protest to make a speech that was a rattling tirade about “tankies”, and I think that gives a cross section on these types.