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1998822 wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted8445 in OK Bookchin by zoochotic

I've often seen the term lifestylism being shoved against queer people for literally trying to survive and live.

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DarkArmillary wrote

I've often seen the term lifestylism being shoved against queer people for literally trying to survive and live.

Really just baseless slander there.

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DarkArmillary wrote

These are mostly fair questions; the answer to all of them is 'no.'

Though they don't get at the main reason this is baseless: it's just anecdotal.

Anecdotes can have power, especially as they accumulate and become a pattern. As anecdotal evidence however, it's nothing I've ever seen or experienced, nor heard others raise as a problem in particular. I've heard and seen the term used on quite a few occasions, with specific meaning, none of them insulting of queer people at all. If there are any articles or perhaps an array of screenshots that demonstrate the term has been used to denigrate people on the basis of their sexuality, then I'm open to considering that, if it exists.

As a term or a word I don't hold it especially "dear." But I do advocate for accuracy and clarity in speech for many terms.

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greyface wrote

lot of the experience with anarchism happens offline in group projects, etc.

But according to this kid if it's not in a book it isn't real.

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greyface wrote

Lifestylism meaning anti-queerness is a pattern. You're just the one perpetuating it.

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ploopt wrote

This is not exactly what you're asking for, but looking at this passage from Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism, it's not hard to see how this happens:

Consciously or not, many lifestyle anarchists articulate Michel Foucault’s approach of ‘personal insurrection’ rather than social revolution, premised as it is on an ambiguous and cosmic critique of power as such rather than on a demand for the institutionalized empowerment of the oppressed in popular assemblies, councils, and/or confederations.

translation: join the vanguard or STFU

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DarkArmiIIary wrote

Sorry, I don't keep track of everything a transphobic person says to me. Asking me to show proof of people mistreating me before my words can mean anything is strange.

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DarkArmiIIary wrote

Lifestylism is literally anything that doesn't follow the party line. Being gay or being trans is viewed as a lifestyle by bigoted people, just like Dark over here.

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DarkArmiIIary wrote

Only state approved 'facts,' are allowed. It is now illegal to talk about one's personal experinces.

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