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Ganggang wrote (edited )

I didn’t know about this before I read the article. But reading it, the (primary?) charge of gentrification doesn’t really seem accurate, I really don’t think a bunch of “dreadlocks wearing white punks” are going to make the property value go up.

The thing about the inappropriate joke workshop is gross, as is some of the comments said by attendees.

But still yeah I mean I wish they hadn’t done that. I’m also concerned about racism in the anarchist community but I don’t think that kicking out crime thinc is really going to help. It’s also not like all APOC support this, it’s just the ones that gathered together to accomplish the “eviction”. There were like 8 of them.

I’d maybe speculate even though they didn’t directly say this that their opinion is that anarchism is a “movement” that should be BIPOC led, and that crime thinc isn’t facilitating this. The part they objected to about crime thinc encouraging people to reject society suggests this to me in particular, they seem to feel that’s basically lifestylism. Personally I don’t think anarchism should have any leaders and therefore isn’t really a movement either. So I disagree with the people that stopped this event.

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