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

[Yosem Companys]

This definitely rings true with so much talk lately of "dominating battle
spaces." I do think it is all about expectations. If a space is defined as one
in which to grieve, I suspect mediation would not be welcome, and vice versa.  





On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 11:11 PM, Julian Oliver julian at julianoliver.com  wrote:
..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




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