Thread by @caitoz

For years idiots have been calling me a "red-brown" who is secretly trying to turn leftists into Nazis and sneak Nazis into positions of leftist leadership. You'd figure after all this time they'd be able point to a single instance in which I've been able to achieve such a thing.

Back in 2017 they were certain, 100% certain, that I would be pied-pipering leftists into Nazism. At the very least they were certain that I'd be one of those Berners-turned-Trumpers like Fairbanks or HA Goodman who cheerleads Trumpism. They were wrong then, they are wrong now.

I said some dumb things when I first started this writing job because I didn't fully understand the various online factions, and I defended my arguments poorly because I was being mobbed by people who were saying false things about me and I was triggered.
caityjohnstone.medium.com/11-things-you-…

Everyone mobbed me and I'd just gotten out of an abusive relationship with someone who was constantly telling me false things about myself. Then suddenly I'm surrounded by people telling me I'm a closet Nazi who wants to turn leftists into Nazis, and I handled it unskillfully.

Everyone was screaming different and wildly contradictory things at me, most of it completely false, while completely ignoring me saying explicitly over and over again that I don't want leftists to align with Nazis. They were just like "Yeah but you want us to align with Nazis!"

It was the dynamics described in this thread gone completely out of control, and now to this day there are a bunch of people in certain factions of Left Twitter who are 100% certain that I promote an alliance between leftists and Nazis. I don't. Never did.

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1353887843068776448

Yes I do think wherever there's an issue on which left and right agree they should all put their shoulders against it and shove it in the direction they all want; that's just being a normal adult person. No I do not think that means aligning with Nazis. For fuck's sake.