So, historical materialism time: certain other banned subreddits with lemmy forks had issues early on rooting out racists and transphobes. There was a lot of pushback from the aggressively white/masc subset community for what they considered overreactions to microaggressions. But when push came to shove, they would often show their whole ass and post the most vitriolic and honestly boomer chud shit to grace the modlogs.
Please keep your minority comrades in mind when posting and moderating your communities. We are service workers, factory workers, and low-level clerks in this together with everyone else, and we would like to believe that socialists care about us too. This is not to say I doubt this community at all, but just wanted to convey lessons from the past.
Trans issues, pronouns, and race issues also make a great litmus tests for weeding out Maupin-type “nationalists” who are mainly self interested.
Hoping to see great things from this community, and nice to meet you all! (っ_)っ
I get why you don’t want to dismiss Caleb, he is well read and he seems genuinely interested in educating people and he even seems like a nice person. Of all the patsocs, him and Mid Western Marx seem like the most genuine.
But should we let his followers into our movement? Of this I am very skeptical. I know he has no control over the vast majority of his community but he put Infrared Haz up on stage to speak at his CPI conference.
I can understand why caleb went to other conferences and spoke with questionable people like Dugin but when he does his own thing, who he puts up on stage does matter.
You can find caleb’s books online (Z library) rather than subject yourself to a multi hour breadtube video.
Caleb is clearly building his own movement with the CPI, if you want to be involved with that then I guess that’s your choice and if the CPI wants to collaborate with other orgs on issues where we align I could even go along with that.