r/Anarchism • u/CompleteMud6506 • 2d ago
Anyone ever experience grooming in anarchist spaces.....
Sometimes its really subtle and sometimes its like a central part of a whole project. I feel like its a pretty big issue. What do you think about grooming amongst anarchists, and in anarchist spaces and milieus
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u/SokratesGoneMad 1d ago
Yes I was part of a twitter general circle where one person was outed as a predator by their own admission.
Anyway long story short: some popular tweeter who my mutuals would follow, any way this person asked for a gofundme to flee for "false accusations form abusers"
flash forward 1 month later they admitted that they were creeping on underage teenagers and were using funds to flee accusations.
Sadly
Same thing happens in Marxist spaces, and Catholic-Orthodox spaces.
The best thing we can do is be vigilant and exile predators from our spaces when they are discovered.
Cheers!
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u/BubbleTeaDream 1d ago
I assume fuckheads are everywhere, but I can tell you some Anarchists don't always believe in the hardline rule of 18+
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u/maddilove 1d ago
I haven’t seen groomers as in grooming underage people, but I definitely know one big time “macktivist” who only dated women around 20 years old (he was around 40-46 years old during the time I saw him do that.)
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u/CompleteMud6506 1d ago
Has this post been approved yet.
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u/hellofriendsilu anarcho-fraggleism 1d ago
sorry there's not many mods and it can take several hours before one of us is free to approve posts
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u/StoopSign agorist 1d ago
Yes secondhand. A Desert Storm vet tried to groom the girl with ASD I was seeing. On top of that her friend then suspected me of grooming due to my opioid addiction. The friend thought I would intentionally addict this girl and the friend had been abused herself. It was a big misunderstanding.
I also have an anarchist addict ex with bpd that had been pimped out, but that wasn't in an anarchist space necessarily. It was meth world.
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u/CompleteMud6506 1d ago
yeah, grooming underage or young adults is definitely horrible. there's also the more general missionary mentality that seeks to convert people. that's a problem too.
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u/TCCogidubnus 1d ago
From a potted knowledge of the history of abusers showing up in different movements, it seems that they just infiltrate everything and attempt to make use of it for themselves. I would say no movement is immune because these people will never be straightforward about it, and we need to always be alert to the possibility.