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 (DIR) Post #B5n3wI7BdJmMzWK276 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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       RE: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116166163421701758A few weeks back I got very exasperated and posted a thread about "identi-Moonies', a term I've continued to use. I want to be very clear that what I'm talking about here is the *misuse* of identity politics to disrupt grassroots movements that threaten the political-economic interest of corporatists ("neoliberals"). Both people intentionally shillling for corporate interests, and Useful Idiots inadvertently leaning into the divisive discourse generated by those shills.(1/?)RT: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/116166163421701758
       
 (DIR) Post #B5n3wIL0nuq1gOn4fA by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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       I recognise that many people face discrimination for neutral aspects of their identity, like gender or ethnicity. As well as individual bigotry, this can be expressed as bias in institutions (eg police, news media), and it’s necessary to organise politically to work on that. People doing that work have developed language that describes it and why they’re doing it.But just because this work is valid, that doesn’t mean that anything that justifies itself using that language is valid.(2/?)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5n3wQC5aySE32g3rk by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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       The language of activism is sometimes co-opted as PR cover for more self-interested actions, and as with greenwashing and openwashing, we have to watch out for ‘identity-washing’.The attacks on Stallman are a classic example, as transwoman Leah Rowe of LibreBoot explains in her letter to the software freedom movement;http://techrights.org/2021/03/31/leah-rowe-defend-rms/More details on the assassination attempt on Stallman’s character and why its claims are false can be found here;https://stallmansupport.org/(3/?)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5n3wSR3GJbx01h2Su by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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       I've reached the point where I can't be bothered trying to distinguish between shills engaged in identitywashing and Useful Idiots parroting them. I have no time for either. From now on any time I see a post or reply that comes across as identi-Moonie discourse, I'm going to Unfollow and if necessay Mute the account.Life's just too short.(4/4)