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

[fuzzyTew]

I'm a hobbyist and read a few books but not practiced extensively.  I've
read Nonviolent Communication, which becomes a particular form of
transformative mediation when you get into it.

NVC is designed to be able to enter any situation in a way that supports
the people in that situation, but it needs to be done by someone who has
experience doing so in the particular situation.

Unfortunately it is not widely addressed that this experience is often
gained by error rather than planning.

Is that maybe what you are talking about?

I don't have the capacity to address all this but it sounds like you have
been exposed to some situations where attempts to support people have
inadvertently hurt them.  It would be wonderful to provide for learning
around that, to prevent it.


On Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 7:40 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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