Thread by @rechelon

I did a thread a while back on the Patriarchy In The Movement fight and how Kristian Williams is a viciously dishonest abuse apologist.

I've repeatedly alluded to a prominent figure who said fucked up shit and was central to attacking the survivor. Let's be clear: It was Paul. t.co/JpRJBmTGlp

Here's the longer thread I did giving the context of the PITM fight and how immensely fucked up it was.

I named the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS) and how a bunch of my friends returned their grants from them over their complicity in all that.

Paul:

1) Ran cover for his boys including one of the most deeply dishonest accountability docs that fractally misrepresented the situation.

2) Said abusers can be rehabilitated but survivors are often too broken and crazy to be kept in the movement.

3) Doxed an antifascist.

Paul is personable and "nice" -- especially when he thinks you have social capital -- he sucked up at length to me and did the whole "I'm just trying to learn and grow, let us know how we might have fallen short!" spin with me. But his actions and obfuscations speak louder.

Paul's public naming of one of a core and very important antifascist activist in this town (and a survivor being targeted by his bros) *may* have been accidental rather than vindictive but he left it up for a long while and it was right when a local nazi was making a kill list.

Paul's writeup about Little Pete frames the entire situation as an unfortunate mistake where Pete was just too caring and tried too hard and accidentally didn't respect survivors. Totally lying about / hiding that Pete proactively lied to the survivor, lied about the survivor...

There's no accountability or admission of how Pete marshaled social capital around national networks to absurdly slander and mobilize against the survivor. This is because Paul and Kristian were part of the old boys crews that participated and facilitated this mobilization.

IAS has never had an accounting or cleaned house of Paul and Kristian's bullshit because IAS pretty much just *is* Paul.

This is why a large number of anarchist scholars with contact with local activist and antifascists know the score and refuse to collaborate with them.

As AK Press (Kristian is a central figure) and IAS leaned heavier and heavier into disingenuous abuse apologia content under the pretenses of transformative justice I've hemmed and hawed over whether to unearth this shit again on my own. But I'll always have survivors' backs.

Anyway, fuck all this smarmy sleezy fucking old boys shit. Yall are wrong on the theory, actively harmful in practice, and also you went after some of the best anarchists/antifascists I've ever known. My name is sneered at in old boys networks anyway, I don't care if you hate me.