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kinshavo wrote

I think an affinity group need to be irl

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Majrelende OP wrote (edited )

I thought so too, but I recently heard of a group that met over Zoom which called itself an affinity group.

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lettuceLeafer wrote

yeah illegal online activity has to be a trustless system. I would not do online activities of that nature with people I got to intimately know of the internet. Thats just terrible advice that will get you prison cell. Idk I think this is only contentious if you think raddle is an affinity group. Which I guess maybe but when people say affinity group they don't mean just people doing stuff together.

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ghost wrote

Nah. Requiring groups to be offline to be legitimate just excludes disabled people and folks in rural areas without transpo.

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kinshavo wrote

I don't bite it. This is the same argument when someone say that anticiv is ableist

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ghost wrote

Definitely plenty of mischiefs that can be done online.

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kinshavo wrote

This is my opinion only, I think an affinity group is something more intimate than the average direct action group. For me an affinity group should be able to replace a family dynamics if possible, maybe this is Avery particular interpretation.

My only point to ghost comment was to dismiss internet as the only enabler of disabled or off grid people.

And about Raddle being an affinity group Im sure that it isn't.

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lettuceLeafer wrote

I actually agree with this interpretation of affinity group. Affinity implies a close relationship. Which is the whole reason they are hard to infiltrate. Anything online is just a group.

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ghost wrote

If your anticiv excludes the needs of disabled people, then it is, in fact, ableist.

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lettuceLeafer wrote (edited )

Do you think burning down the only hospital in town (without killing or hurting any patients) is ableist?

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