What paid corporate shill wrote this? They were mad because the movement grew to no longer represent what she made it for. The group splintered after this because she was clearly not about reforming work and work culture, but avoiding it all together. Thats fine, though the interview was not.

I mean. Sure. That’s all true. Gentrification, sanewashing, she was there omnipresently and represented a less curated version of the core community.

But damn. Don’t talk to media. Definitely don’t talk to media unprepared. DEFINITELY don’t accept a media invite from an openly hostile media (which… Most of it is for anarchists) WITHOUT HAVING A LITERAL SCRIPT THAT YOU DO NOT DEVIATE FROM

This can’t seriously be what passes for journalism nowadays.

I feel like this lacks the necessary context of Bob Black’s previous work on the “antiwork” manifesto.

Thank you for this fantastic article - it really succinctly put into words some of my thoughts about what had been happening as well as opened my eyes to some stuff going on behind the scenes I was not aware of.

It’s nice to see a quality discussion about sanewashing. It’s something I didn’t really grow to recognize and appreciate as a problem until the defund the police and BLM movements gained the popular scene recently, because it happened on a much faster scale than many other sanewashing events I’ve seen happen, which helped to demonstrate to me how influential this can be.

All this article says to me is how much of a grind-culture, corporate cuck Trace Underwood is. This feels like exactly the article I’d write if I were a wall street underling being forced to show my undying fealty for capitalism while reporting this story.

lol, only left-wing brains manage to be pissed when their movement grows too much

yeah the right is guilty of sheeping around too much, but the left is the opposite - they won’t unite unless they feel 100% aligned. Stop purity testing each other and embrace the guy who is just here at talk about how much their bosses suck.

The foundational assumptions in this article are pretty weak. Perhaps most of all the assumption that there’s some “real” version of any sub. When a bunch of people pissed off about working and work culture in America converged on r/antiwork, that became the “real” version of the sub, regardless of what it had been for years before.

This article might as well be titled “You Don’t Even Go Here!”