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ziq wrote (edited )

Because the other ppl in the commune all sit around watching her drama on a private mastodon instance and never miss a beat

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ziq wrote (edited )

It was unfortunate, then, that there were some people online who simply misunderstood her and misdescribed her. This was particularly the case with regard to her views about youth sexuality, views she simply thought consistent both with an anarchy that believes in neither law nor government — so how can there be ages of consent? — and with the ethos of Emma Goldman and E. Armand who wrote about young people fettered and coerced by the adult world in order to make them clones of themselves. Anarqxista, who would never let a point go she truly believed in, used the historical anarchist examples of Becky Edelsohn and America Josefina Scarfo as part of an argument intended to show that anarchists have their own values and their own ways of relating to each other based on their own understandings: they don’t simply do what the government tells them! This was never less than consensual in her thinking and about the free association of all people, even teenagers. This was mistaken by a few dogmatic and misguided people as a pro-pedophilia argument but, as she always tried to make plain, it wasn’t. What it was was an argument about youth liberation, an argument about freedom to choose for the teenager who had been appropriately educated about sex from an early age. Anarqxista always objected to any sort of abuse or non-consensuality in sexual relationships so it would be bizarre to imagine that, when it came to young people, she simply forgot about it. In fact, she didn’t. She was, in her eyes, just being consistent. The freedom to choose, she thought, was everybody’s freedom to choose if they were in a position to be able to do so. So she granted people that freedom on the understanding they were such people as had been educated about sexuality in ways consistent with anarchism. Like Becky and America, in fact.

Like, really putting a LOT of focus on a particular days-old argument the stabbed lady had on an obscure site. "Our friend was stabbed to death being a hero and here are 2000 words explaining why they're not a pedo"

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ziq wrote

Perhaps just one pre-eminent abiding memory we will retain of her is then the day she came back to The Nude House in the scorching summer of 2022 with a man whom she had found on the beach who wanted to kill himself. She immediately extended hospitality to him, brought him home to us and personally took care of him for the next several days until his immediate crisis was over. That was Anarqxista, a person of love and action. NOT A PEDO YOU FUCKING INGRATES.

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