call it whatever you care - crude, lumpen, unrefined, unprofessional, uncomfortable, creepy, conflict-obsessed, uncaring, unprincipled — it doesn’t matter to it. it wears its heart on its sleeve. it will always fight. it lives and dies by the sword. can you say the same?
it will once again reaffirm its commitment to the party line, the revolutionary cause, and the agenda of the RCI and RCA. the only reason it has posted its grievances publicly is because it’s been denied any opportunity to appeal its expulsion internally.
today it was expelled from the party.
the reasons were for carrying a knife, which isnt against law or party code of conduct, wearing short shorts in an 80 degree march (when others did too, including leadership) & “making others uncomfortable” which feels transmisogynistic
@elcumster it will again reaffirm its commitment to the RCI’s partyline and will say its expulsion was unwarranted and goes against the pro-queer position the international at large holds.
@elcumster this is off the back of it getting expelled for “making females feel uncomfortable” and for its “it/its pronouns being IDPOL, uncomfortable for comrades, and a hinderance for newspaper sales” so idk. rci isnt terfy at its core but the section which expelled it was and is.
@lithophage it agrees but it would say it/its has a very clear material basis in marginalization, dehumanization, & reclaiming it for yourself. it/its can be a mere descriptor of the material relations trans proletarian are subjected to under capitalism, & it would say it has a material base
@Evelyns_Evilyn it feels dubious to boot it in a phone call it wasnt even present for going off smoke and mirrors allegations where allegers also were not present. theyre essentially claiming scooting through an aisle of chairs in short shorts is akin to sexual harrassment.
today it was expelled from the party.
the reasons were for carrying a knife, which isnt against law or party code of conduct, wearing short shorts in an 80 degree march (when others did too, including leadership) & “making others uncomfortable” which feels transmisogynistic
@Evelyns_Evilyn yeah, sounds like it was the chair and 2 or 3 other leading comrades in the area who booted it over a phone call. it doubts they even met in person to discuss this, there’s questions to be raised on how legitimate an impromptu meeting the day we arrived back from congress even is
@Evelyns_Evilyn the whole reason its airing this dirty laundry so publicly is because its been denied any internal process for appealing or listing grievances
@Evelyns_Evilyn its been in contact with leadership from chicago and various comrades in columbus, morehead, and Minneapolis, its going to write a letter of complaint with their signatures and perhaps send the letter through one of them, as probationary members do not have a right of appeal.
@littlefoxnev@kalbarrikartel@NotPotBol they can be, it wouldn’t say this is representative of trotskyites as a whole, this same weekend it met dozens of trans Trotskyists, detroit section’s moral conservatism is very much antithetical to how rawly queer the rank and file of many trotskyite parties actually are!
@seanapriori do you think it supports democrats & lives off their approval? its a fuckin commie. we arent gonna be able to nag the democrats to support us, you and it both understand this, but whereas you go full throttle in throating the reactionaries in power it organizes on its own terms.