If we're going to help each other through this, I have a suggestion for how to start.
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If we're going to help each other through this, I have a suggestion for how to start. It's small, but you can do it today.
Go dig up the code of conduct for the social spaces you're in. That means your community slacks, discord servers, mailing lists, open source projects, and conferences. If there isn't a CoC, demand one. If there is, demand specific language about who is protected by that code of conduct.
White women are particularly well positioned to do this.
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
The point of a CoC should be to keep people from being abused and excluded. Marginalized people are the ones who experience abuse and exclusion. Demand specific language that safety takes priority over decorum. Make a fuss and keep it up. You will find allies. In fact, they'll find you. Or, you'll find that you never should have been there in the first place.
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
And then talk to your new allies. Find out what they need, and keep helping.
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@[email protected] As a member of several marginalized groups I applaud this post and as someone who is in charge of drafting and ratifying code of conducts for various communities :neocat_floof_explode:
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@puppygirlhornypost2 Yeah, none of this is easy. But honestly, the process of finding agreement, and disagreement, is where all of the value in these documents lives. If you don't do that, they're just words on paper.
I know I would rather have someone who already cares pushing for a stronger CoC, than to try to pull people out of indifference.
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And do this all off social media if possible, as the nation is likely to experience the installation of a Stasi-like citizen surveillance on top of the government and marketing surveillance.
Protect your information and the people who will look for it.
While there will be violent squads on the street, there will also be infiltrators and folks will be detained for the smallest of reasons.
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
This was prompted by another conversation about the risks people are facing. Some of that included threats to be blacklisted from journals and conferences, in retaliation for highlighting social injustices in tech.
The thing is, you don't have to wait for those threats to materialize. You can proactively guard against them. You can build agreement, now, that this is a welcome topic. That complaints about it will be made in bad faith.
You can prime people to do the right thing when it matters.
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@beccanalia If you're dealing in topics that are actually illegal, then maybe. But in that case, codes of conduct probably aren't even relevant. Otherwise, I don't think I agree. This is about committing to work toward justice, even when it's uncomfortable.
The fash will try to shame, silence, bully, and scapegoat people long before they can criminalize it. You can't resist that in secret. It's literally the opposite of helpful.
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Bleeding Heart Liberal last edited by
@Awoke your emoji salad is, at best, unhelpful. Please get out of my replies.
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The fash will lean on social media platforms to suspend such communications.
I point to all Meta properties' draconian anti-democratic suppression of speech over the last year or two.
I also point to basic practical ways to protect ourselves from that surveillance.
So, use SIGNAL, THREEMA, and SESSION as options to separate organizing / political speech, family, and work.
Start now. Our defiance should be in the meat-space world based on discretion in the online world.
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This is how the XRW has organized for the last 45-years at the highest reaches.
The strategize off line and execute online and within the power structures they've infiltrated.
Sure, the thugs: Proud Boys, et al. have used it & so have been monitored by anti-fash groups that have repeatedly spiked their grand plans of intimidation.
We must be smarter, cleverer, and much more sly than the XRW now -- at all levels.
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@beccanalia I assume xrw mean extreme right wing? Many of the things they planned were *actually illegal*. Which is my point.
They made many orders of magnitude more progress toward their goals with prager U and buying radio stations than they did with their tactical violence fantasies. And so would we.
You cannot *secretly* alter culture. You have to do it out loud, in public, every day.
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Yes. "XRW" is shorthand for "Extreme Right Wing."
Yes, their infiltration into all cultural areas has been instrumental in the rise of the XRW and the suppression of (reasonable, rational) center Left and Left ideas*.
I'm thinking strategically & in layers here: Where there are already fact-based / pro-democracy orgs in the public sphere, we support those.
Other organizing should be more discreet in order to support longevity & the successful execution of planning.
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@beccanalia you're wrong, but I'm tired of arguing about this.
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The coming administration / dictatorship is vindictive and violent.
It is my thinking that yes, there will be protests, etc. (as there should be).
All I'm thinking is that the model should be guerilla action. That's all.
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@beccanalia I. am. not. talking. about. that.
That is not a topic I brought up.
I said to update codes of conduct.
If you want to theory craft about how to do secure comms for an insurgency, you are in the wrong fucking place.
Now stop it.
