As someone who has handled a lot of grievance cases as a chapter leader I can say it never ends well when people try to use the process to damage people theyโre angry at, even if those people genuinely did wrong
@punishedmazdak the fundamental problem is everyone on the left is so paranoid about offending anybody that it doesn't see that speech controls and codes of conduct produce bigger problems
Doxxing is never okay. No one deserves to have their personal lives upended or to feel unsafe, regardless of their political failings. My only goal was to identify where the wrong people were put in the wrong positions. I apologize for any doxxing my article may have motivated.
EPISODE 46: PALESTINE AND THE WAR MACHINE
James Crane (@gruidae_james) joins us to discuss how Palestine shaped Deleuze & Guattari's philosophy, and what their concepts of minoritarian politics, the war machine, and lines of flight mean for the practice of revolutionary struggle
My problem with abstracting Omars suspension to a vague freedom of speech issue is that it neglects the context of the DSA using grievances to enforce and protect zionist and ethnoreligious tendencies in the organization.
Good read.
Important note: the crypto-Zionist right are coordinated and happy to use the grievance infrastructure of the DSA to discredit and punish their enemies. This is not limited to NYC, or even DSA! The Corbyn playbook will be and is used in every left wing space!
@Jules1049349123 Yea that's why it should be defended as the solution, but freedom of speech as such can be easily argued against which is why it gets implemented so frequently. By actually demonstrating the way it attacks minorities and protects reactionary sentiment you solidify it into real
Freedom of speech to be clear is a valuable weapon against the squashing of (political) minorities, but the crux of the issue remains the tyranny of the majority, not a vague gesture of principles. Politicizing the question is key.