in any group there will be harmful behaviour, from hurtful words to sexual harassment and worse. currently leftists deal with this in one of 2 ways, 1) becoming the cop or 2) pretending it doesn't matter. neither will build community. ostracism is a lot harsher punishment than people seem to think. if we don't learn to genuinely address harm in ways that keep us together, we'll stay dependent on the State to do the dirty part, forever.

and I don't care if the anti-idpol scumbag-left cancels me, I don't even know if those dudes are still a thing and I don't want to. but I think it's absolutely taboo right now for me to state that abusers shouldn't have their beating hearts torn out before the Sun God on first offense. I don't know how to convey this to the Euro scene in a productive manner.

maybe try this: suddenly a military occupation explodes and you scramble to download all those Tacticool Girlfriend videos you didn't watch and learn to protect your friends, cos it's either that or die (1). you're sheltering in a war zone now, going out together under the buzzing drones to get food, trying to connect to allies and survive. now a fuckboy at your group who had always been kinda annoying but never downright abusive one day does a sexual harassment. what do you, collectively, do?

banish him from the group? that means kicking him out into the war. now he dies. yes no I don't support sexual abuse, but I don't support death penalty as the punishment for sexual abuse either. or else he manages to survive, someone validates his sense of unfairness and he joins the nazis. is this a good result for the girl, yay I don't have to look at my abuser again, he's safely out there getting into Evola? I don't care what abusers do, say, to other girls, as long as I kicked them far enough that I don't have to think about it?

or do you tell the girl that I'm sorry, that was terrible but it's a war right now and we need all shooters, we can deal with rape culture after world peace is achieved just let it go for now, and from day #2 we all just pretend everything is normal? what will that do to the bonds of trust when it keeps happening, under pressure?

"but we are not in a war zone" homer simpson meme, we are not in a war zone ✨yet✨. but ok, current status here in the increasingly-surreal "irl" of the privileged: if you kick people out of the communities they're in and put them on permanent, irreversible outcast status, they don't get killed or even arrested. all that happens is that they're out there in bitter solitude, then they start Patreons and Netflix specials. this is working great to stop abuse?

I'm not writing this hot take academically, I have lived through issues like this in about every Euro political group I've been to—nothing as bad as sexual abuse, fortunately, but decidly bad behaviour that shouldn't be left un-addressed, but then it was definitely addressed in ways that rely on the existence of a State outside the doors to kick the bad elements onto, safely out of our pretty prefigurative bubbles.

yes restorative justice, transformative, all that is great we stan, but in practice is your group prepared to actually do it? everybody is so focused on rooting out sexual predators and problematic prejudices that it honestly feels to me like liberals dealing with crime, "to catch a predator: anarchist assembly edition". if not incarceration or ostracism, what is the accountability that we're striving _for_ ? can we talk about measures that could be taken to prevent and remedy internal harm, before the internal harm happens, preferably before the external harm comes for us? cos like the external harm feels like kinda close these days??

1: "The events of the Maidan were like a situation in which the special forces break into your house and you need to take decisive actions, but your arsenal consists only of punk lyrics, veganism, 100-year-old books, and at best, the experience of participating in street anti-fascism and local social conflicts. Consequently, there was a lot of confusion, as people attempted to understand what was happening."
de.crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/w