[liberationtech] Alt-Right Trolls Are Trying to Sabotage Black Lives Matter Chatrooms

[Julian Oliver]

..on Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:58:23AM -0700, Rob Myers wrote:
> On 2020-06-10 10:22 a.m., fuzzyTew wrote:
> > 
> > The right mediation might help people participating in opposing efforts
> > grow understanding of each other, so they can struggle in support of
> > each other rather than conflict.
> People who don't want to be killed struggling in support of the people
> who want to kill them doesn't seem like the best idea.
> 
> But that isn't the problem here. The problem is griefing, and mediating
> that simply enables it.
> 
> So no.
> 
> Don't do that.
> 

Agreed. I've seen be ruinous in activist movements I've been involved
with, presently a struggle in several large chapters of Extinction Rebellion.
It's important to understand that many don't want less conflict, rather more of
it; they don't want resolution, rather to control, to dominate. 

Just as a burglary is not 'a dispute over property', seeking to mediate between
a community and a troll group only nourishes a culture of abuse. Re-framing an
attack as a 'perspective' is a device diversely employed by the far and 'alt'
right.

Cheers,

Julian