re: #92 Decatur Deb

That’s the limiting weakness in “movements” as opposed to “organizations”. They have no self-regulatory mechanisms. With the best will in the world, there is simply no pathway to purge the pathological. When it gets bad enough, all they can do is fragment.

Note that even established political parties suffer from this—there are very few processes that allow Democratic or Republican Party leadership to purge nutcase candidates.

It is difficult, in a movement that is organized around fighting oppression of multiple groups by another more powerful group to turn on someone who’s oppressed by the same group, especially if the oppressor wants/tells you to.

As an aside, the genius of the Right has been to convince the oppressors that they’re the oppressed, and the oppressed are their oppressors.