stinky TERFs left crying in pain and begging for help in socalled Pourtland

received via email, also posted on Rose City Counter-Info

on the day be4 trans day of rage a group of 300000000000000000000(uwu we can;t count_) very excitedddd and angy violent fagg0ts beat TF out of some smelly ass terfs in so called portland and left them crying, bruIsed, covered in mace, tomoto(tamyto?) juice, and BLOOOOOOOOOD~ XDDD!!!1!! while some people werre planing on just tossng some pies (LAAAAAAMMEEEE)) we thought it would be waaaayyy more useful (aand fun :3) to leave them suuuuuuper f*cked up by giving them mAce, delicious asphalt to taste and some refreshing soda delivered 500 (still can[t count :P) mph at there tacky ass haircutzzzz to wash all that downnnn hahahaha LUUUUlzszzz…what waz SUPER not sexy tho was that sum big dummiez done LAME and embarassing things like tankies who ran when the !!!1VioWeNcE!!!1!! strted :((((((( also stupid dum liberals who twied to make it stwop (;M;) becuz they were afwayed….,. BOO HOO bitchezzz!!! What WAS sexzy tho was when the terfs got their phnes and go-pwos left in peices on the pavement becuz we didnt want them to get our beatufiul and glamerous faces on camera, or call those nasty fucks they call the powice teeheeeee uwwwwuuuuu~~~~~!!!!!!!!1!!!1 W3 only wish that more of the 3000000000000000000000 (see beginng) faggotz were prepared to do moar. we hope Th0se brave brave brave “adult human femalezzz” know that their will never be space in any place for them :3..we will follow them wherever they show their raggedy ass white dressez and knockoff prom queen sashes,,, from coast to coast,..to the ends of the earth… You are not safe. You never will be..Sooooooooo NEXT time you try and show those freaky wittle faaces of urs it will be SOOOOOOO mch worse, like omg, we were going SOOOOOO soffftttt, grrl u dont even knowwwwww hahahahhahahaahhahahahhahahahahah LUUUUUUULLLLLL <3<3<3<3, so think on your bruises and look at them real well and consider how lucky you really are ;) BAAAIiii!!!! kissezzz!!! mwaaahh~~~!!! XD

– 5 billion (?) sexy, freaky, HAAAWWWTTTTT (tr)anarchists

[Further context via Rose City Counter-Info]

This weekend members of the Trans Exterminationist “Women’s Declaration International” and “Women’s Liberation Front” came to Portland to attempt a conference and rally at a public library in Portland. It went badly for them. Like really really badly.

Shortly after the TERFs arrived on Saturday, Rose City Antifa posted an article with screen recordings of their zoom meeting, in which the pie eating, eternal enemy of anarchism, WDI and WoLF leader Lierre Keith openly admitted that the group’s “feminism” is a cover to spread hatred of trans people. In that same call she ordered the group to follow her “non violent direct action” strategy in which the TERFs submit to being attacked in order to film it so as to make trans people “look bad”. More on that later

Following RCA releasing their article, the terfs began to completely lose their shit having realized that they had been infiltrated. They immediately started to fight viciously with each other and accuse each other of secretly being trans. While this on its own is hilarious, it was just the start.

On Sunday morning the TERFs woke up to find that all the cars parked at their airbnb had had their tires slashed. Shaken by this vandalism they debated whether to still hold their rally and multiple TERFs dropped out.

The TERFs, in their endless cycle of poor-decision making, decided to go ahead with the rally anyway. When they arrived to the area they found that the neighborhood had been covered with posters of their faces and that pressure from counterdemonstrators had caused the library to close for safety concerns.

They set up their rally a few blocks away and it wasn’t long before the counterdemo found them and according to the WDI twitter they “pepper sprayed, punched, kicked, and threw objects at them [the terfs] while stealing and breaking their phones and cameras.”

We were delighted to hear that the terfs had allegedly gotten their shit absolutely rocked. What makes this absolutely hilarious, is that the terfs had unintentionally COVERED the bodycams they were wearing in order to capture footage of them being attacked which was the ENTIRE POINT OF THE EVENT!

A point that some (including the RCA article linked earlier) have made was that attacking TERFs at the rally would only give them what they want, which is to make trans people “look bad” and to make themselves look like victims, and so people ought to have abstained from attacking them.

We have zero patience for takes like these which are essentially just a regurgitation of respectability politics and peace policing. When there are people not only spewing genocidal rhetoric but actively collaborating with the violence of the state against trans people, do not be surprised when trans people bash back. And if the TERFs want to get fucked up, that is a request that we should readily oblige, and we should oblige it in a way that makes them absolutely regret it, which it seems like is what happened on Sunday.

Nothing but love to all the violent queers who showed up to kick the transphobes out of Portland!

 

submitted anonymously

[Further context: Portland Mobilizes and Shuts Down Anti-Trans Hate Group with Links to the Far-Right ]

Report on recent mobilization in Portland, Oregon against anti-trans hate group with links to the far-Right. For more information on the Women’s Declaration International (WDI), go here.

photos: @marcielinenovatore

A few months ago, Women’s Declaration International (WDI) announced their intention to have a “nationwide gender abolition tour” comprised of three stops: Philly, San Francisco, and Portland. The final Portland stop of their tour amounted to booking a room at the Hollywood Library on November 19th and giving speeches inside.

For those unfamiliar with WDI, they are a trans-eliminationist group deeply embedded with the far-Right and conservative religious groups who directly collaborate to craft anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, in particular targeting trans people. More information on their history can be found here. WDI is closely intertwined with Lierre Keith’s front group, Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF). Older radicals will remember the long history of conflict between anarchists and Keith (as well as her other project Deep Green Resistance). Keith oversaw planning for this photo-op in Portland and attempted to prepare WDI’s hapless attendees by regurgitating some activist trainings from her days in the Left. As the event neared, they cultivated and actively celebrated the loud support of far-Right actors like Andy Ngo. Having been pied last year on Portland, their plan for a redo was to aggressively posture as innocent helpless women, take a pie or two and comfortably denounce that as unfathomably extreme violence.

However the trans-eliminationists dramatically underestimated the resolve of Portland and people’s readiness to stand against genocide. Combined with a host of incompetent missteps, the result was all the complete disintegration of all their plans with Keith’s reactionary foot-soldiers shocked, and sadly running home covered in pie and silly string – plus, at least in one case, a tag scrawled across their backs.

The night before their rally, Rose City Antifa released a write up on WDI and their plans, which had been obtained through a variety of infiltrators in the reactionaries’ planning group. In their meeting, beyond all of the disgusting transphobic and far-Right vitriol, they frankly admitted their pretense of caring for women and children was merely a cynical cover to mask their transphobia. The “direct action” they had planned was simply to obtain footage of a few dissidents and single out “crazies” to “make the trans look bad.” Essentially a contrived “self-victimization” tour that they hoped would boost their attention among the far-Right media sphere, while personally risking almost nothing so long as they stuck to Keith’s orders.

Following the failure of their attempted rallies last year, there have been sharp divisions within the trans-eliminationist movement over how openly to collaborate with other far-Right forces, as well as arguments over how directly violent to be on the streets against trans people. It’s important to be clear that these are merely differences in degree and openness. Keith, for instance, has no objection to friendly appearances on white nationalist podcasts or openly cultivating relationships with far-Right figures, and, through DGR, she is an open advocate of extreme insurgent violence by reactionaries. But Keith represents a faction that wants to obscure these existing alliances and commitments so as to facilitate WoLF and WDI’s continued influence of state power and the radicalization of recruits who do not know what they’re getting into. This stands in contrast with other factions who openly brag about macing children and relationships with Proud Boys, and want their violence to be open and public. To keep her grip on the trans-eliminationist movement and her strategy of respectability and hidden power levels, Keith needed a win in Portland.

If the public release of RCA’s article left them shocked, scrambling, and internally recriminating, the woes of Keith’s soldiers were only getting started. The morning of the rally, they reportedly woke up to find all their tires had been slashed. After being outraged that 911 dispatchers refused to treat this as an emergency and then an awkward ride in two Uhaul moving vans, they arrived to the Hollywood library two hours late, and were greeted not with a handful of individuals they could mock but over 100 community members assembled under trans flags. A table with pies of a variety of flavors hosted a large stack of flyers detailing the hate group. Posters of the reactionaries’ faces and personal details covered the neighborhood. Even though the library had closed, many initially skeptical bystanders in the local community quickly pivoted into enthusiastic in support for the disruption after being shown the extent of WDI and WoLF’s trans-eliminationist activities and policies.

In response to the unexpected strength of counter-protesters, Keith’s soldiers gave up on rallying inside or even outside the library and chose instead to try to hold a short flash mob on a minor street corner a few blocks away, whereupon they were chased off in a deluge of pies and tomato juice, a scuffle that they claim also saw their phones and cameras snatched, depriving them of any useful footage for the contrived pity party they wanted. Meanwhile a small handful of TERFs who had not been with the core clique and showed up on their own were left without support from Keith’s soldiers and were ejected in various levels of embarrassment, including one who left with a circle-a spray painted on their back.

Reportedly this hot new trend of tagging a TERF is already sweeping the nation. Forget train cars or heaven spots, if your tag isn’t riding around town on the backside of a genocidal bigot, can you even say you’re up?

[Further context via WDI USA Statement about NVDA Action in Portland]

Women’s Declaration International USA (WDI USA) strongly condemns the violent attacks on us that took place near the Hollywood branch of the Multnomah County Library on Sunday November 19. In the face of this violent woman-hating terrorism, we are proud to stand with women and girls as a sex class spanning all ages, races, backgrounds, sexual orientations, and circumstances.

We also condemn the Portland Police Bureau, which flatly ignored several calls made to 911 while women were being punched, kicked, and pepper-sprayed. Portland police knew of the threat in advance. The library had been vandalized. Our tires were slashed. There had already been security breaches at the library that morning. The cops had driven by and seen the crowd and chose not to disperse it. This was a case of the Portland police knowingly and deliberately abandoning us to a mob.

This statement is intended to provide a timeline of the events and our understanding of what happened. 

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Our event was titled “Protecting Women and Children,” and we had booked a room at the Hollywood library weeks in advance, as any member of the public can do. Our intention was to give talks about how to protect women and children from the threats we face. We invited women to attend.

We had also booked an Airbnb for the nights of Friday through Sunday. We planned a series of training sessions in the tactic of nonviolent direct action, beginning Friday evening and going through Sunday morning. Nonviolent direct action is a very specific tactic for political movements. It confronts power directly and nonviolently. In any nonviolent direct action movement, the violence of those in power already exists; nonviolent direct actionists do not bring the violence, because it’s already there. The purpose of nonviolent direct action is to make existing violence visible to the public.

In the weeks leading up to the attacks, numerous online threats were made, mostly involving the suggestion that pies or other food would be thrown at the speakers. Multnomah County security discussed these threats with WDI USA volunteers and made plans to minimize the risks. Then, the day before the event, Multnomah County security contacted the organizers to report a threat of gun violence. A concerned third party had informed them that a person planning to attend had stated, “I am going to the event and bringing my gun and if anyone messes with me I will use it.” 

The police were notified and a decision was made to move forward with the event, with an increased police presence near the library. The situation escalated when, the night before the event, vandals arrived at the house where the organizers and several participants were sleeping and slashed the tires of all of the vehicles in the carport. At that point, we were on notice that our location had been leaked to those who mean us harm, but we did not know by whom. A WDI USA volunteer called 911 to report the vandalism, but the Portland 911 dispatcher sent her to an automated non-emergency system, which then dropped. She called 911 again, and again, the Portland 911 dispatcher sent her to the same automated non-emergency system, which dropped. At that point, there was little recourse other than to proceed as planned. In this video, WDI USA president Kara Dansky and WoLF founder Lierre Keith explained what was happening. 

Also overnight, the library was vandalized. The county security representative contacted us to tell us that the glass door had been shattered and the exterior of the library building was covered in graffiti. They did not tell us what the graffiti said. As a result, the library decided to close the public areas for the day but allow our event to continue in the reserved room. 

The library’s normal opening time is 10:00 a.m. PT. It did not open on that day because of the vandalism, but by that time, the mob had already begun forming. A woman reached out to WDI USA to tell us that she was in her car near the library entrance and that several parents (mothers, in particular) and their children were there to enjoy the library and seemed frustrated that they couldn’t because of the mob that had formed.

The scheduled time of the event was 12:00 p.m. PT, and county security asked us to hold off on coming until they would be able to secure the rear entrance. However, they eventually reported to us that the mob was circling the building and that there was no way they would be able to secure our entrance into the building at all.

When told to do so by county security, we set off from the Airbnb in two moving vans, half of the participants in one, half in the other. We could see along the way that we were being surveilled. As we neared the library, county security asked us to stop, which we did. We waited while the head of county security and the library president* approached the first van and asked to enter it. We admitted them, and the women in the second van joined those of us in the first van. At that point, all WDI USA participants were in one van, with the head of county security and the library president (both women). We were approximately two blocks from the library. 

They informed us that antifa thugs had surrounded the library and menaced the employees. They also told us that patrons were at a coffee shop next to the library and that there was an elderly living facility above the library. They told us flatly that they were gravely concerned for the safety of library staff, event attendees, nearby patrons of the coffee shop, and the elderly people living upstairs. The head of library security stated that she had the phone number of a Portland Police Bureau sergeant on speed dial and that she was happy to call him the instant a crime was committed. They asked us to consider canceling our event. Several of us had the distinct impression that they thought we would be surprised to hear about the behavior of antifa thugs. They seemed genuinely to believe that we would be afraid enough to cancel our event. We were not surprised to hear any of what they had to tell us. 

We had seconds to make our decision. One of the main organizers said that we were determined to continue with the event. Another of the organizers suggested that in order to avoid any violence being visited on library staff, audience members, nearby coffee shop patrons, and/or elderly residents of the space above the library, we continue with the event, but that we do it on the sidewalk where we were. The last thing we wanted to do was put innocent people, including children and the elderly, in danger. We asked the head of library security to clarify that Portland police officers were in the area and that as soon as there was any sign of a crime being committed, she would call them. She assured us that she would be nearby and would not hesitate to call in the police at the start of any criminal activity.

We need to be very clear about this: We were a small group of women who had booked a space in a public library to talk about protecting women and children. We had done nothing wrong, and we did not intend to do anything wrong. We live in a society in which women ought to be able to speak at a public library about protecting women and children but can’t do so without antifa thugs putting women, children, and elderly people at risk of violence.

We exited the van and walked with our banner reading “WOMAN = ADULT HUMAN FEMALE” to the nearest intersection, just a few blocks from the library. We did this having been assured by the head of county security that the police were nearby and that she would call them in at the first sign of criminal activity. Our planned speeches covered many of the current harms women and children face, from prison rape to addictive and destructive online content. 

The women never got to give their speeches and the police never came. WDI USA president Kara Dansky gave an introduction, and halfway through the very first speech, the women were noticed by the library mob, which advanced on them. The mob began screaming, chanting and throwing cans filled with liquid at the speaking women. Cans landed on the ground, exploding with carbonated liquid. They landed on the bodies of the women standing there. Soon, the mob rushed the women and sprayed copious amounts of blinding, burning chemicals in their faces. The first woman hit with liquid spray was president Kara Dansky but for unknown reasons, she wasn’t badly injured by it. She reports that the impact of liquid being sprayed in her eyes hurt, but the liquid did not appear to be poisonous. The pain subsided fairly quickly. Other women were injured much more severely. The mob sprayed poisonous chemicals directly in women’s eyes. The women were blinded and in excruciating pain. Several women called 911 immediately. 911 dispatchers could hear women screaming and antifa mob members yelling at the women to “GET THE F*CK OUT OF HERE.” While the women were reporting these crimes against them, antifa mob members stole their phones out of their hands, sometimes throwing phones to the ground and smashing them. They also stole two out of the three body cameras that women were wearing. 

They punched several women, who fell to the ground. While the women were on the ground, writhing in pain, antifa mob members repeatedly kicked their bodies and heads. They attacked an old woman passerby, shoving her to the ground. WDI USA volunteers quickly helped the woman to safety at the home of a neighbor who had come outside to view the commotion. A local man tried to intervene to stop the violence, but the crowd continued to beat the women and threatened him. As far as the organizers know, the police never made it to the corner, just a few blocks away from the library where they had claimed to have increased patrols. Throughout the entire ordeal, not a single one of the women participating in our event broke our commitment to nonviolence, even once.

Eventually, our group made their way into a Whole Foods nearby. The security guards were immediately helpful in escorting the women to the bathroom and again calling 911. Soon after, antifa thugs entered the Whole Foods and began taunting the women, saying “where are we going now?” At least one security guard got between them and the antifa thugs who were taunting us.

We called the vans, exited Whole Foods, found one of the vans, piled in, and left to return to the house. 

When we got to the house, we faced another conundrum: what to do now? We knew that antifa knew the location of the house. We had reason to believe that if they knew the location of the house, they might also know the door code to enter it. We had no faith that Portland police would do a single thing to protect us from theft, assault, arson, rape, and/or murder. Four of the women who were the most injured went to the emergency room to have their wounds treated.

We called 911 anyway, and they eventually showed up, hours after women were viciously attacked on the streets of Portland. They took our statements and promised to file a report. We are reasonably confident that this report will be filed, but not at all confident that anything will come of it. The city of Portland simply does not care about the lives or the safety or the civil rights of women. PPB sources tell us that officers are on orders from above not to intervene when there are groups clashing unless there is an imminent threat to life. 

Of course, this was not an incident in which “groups clashed.” This was a brutal, unprovoked attack on unarmed, unresisting women—and the men kicking prone women in the head posed a clear imminent threat to life.

At this point, our options seemed simple: 

  1. Rely on Portland police to protect us;
  2. Abandon the Airbnb to antifa vandals, disperse, and stay in private hotel rooms; or
  3. Wait it out and simply hope that antifa would not assault, rape, and/or kill us.

None of those options seemed viable. WDI USA was simply not willing to put women’s lives at risk by asking women to stay at a house whose location was known to antifa thugs who hate us, likely without any police protection. We also did not relish the idea of abandoning the house to the thugs because the homeowner had done nothing to deserve to have her or his house vandalized. We also did not particularly like the idea of dispersing. At that point, what we wanted was continued sisterhood and solidarity.

Then we had another idea: hire a private security detail. Private security was there within a few hours. They were armed, polite, and extremely professional. Once security arrived, we were able to relax somewhat. We were able to eat dinner, talk, debrief, and even laugh a little. One woman had brought her guitar and she entertained us with her beautiful singing. 

___

We are aware that women did go to the library intending to attend our event. Those women had no way of knowing of the last minute change of plans. We had made a split-second decision to hold our event on the sidewalk rather than in the library and simply had no way of notifying the attendees that we had done so.

To the women who attended our event in good faith that library security and/or the police would protect them from violent thugs: We are deeply sorry for any injuries and/or trauma you may have sustained. We hope you know that we would never intentionally put women in danger without their knowledge and consent. We are grateful for those women who came to attend the event and support us. We are saddened that many of you were subjected to the violence of vicious thugs who hate women, and that neither the library nor the police protected you at all.

To our supporters and to our detractors: Know that we will keep doing these actions. Our strategy continues to be to make the existing male violence against women visible. Each time we succeed in speaking publicly, more people hear our words and understand that violence. Each time men use violence to prevent our speech, even more people see it for what it is. We’ll be doing these actions again and again. Thanks to the ongoing courage and determination of our NVDA volunteers, we’re going to win—even in Portland.


*WDI USA has been advised that this person’s title may not be ‘library president’ and we are seeking clarification.

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WOW. where to start? well, in an attempt to avoid my comments from getting taken down by what seems to be the easily offended (in some directions, but not others) moderators, i’ll try to be calm, short, and to the point.

first, “– 5 billion (?) sexy, freaky, HAAAWWWTTTTT (tr)anarchists” literally perform their stupidity. i am all for deconstructing language in an attempt to open up more authentic and interesting modes of expression and communication, fuck yeah! but these people have got to be kidding? obviously, they spend more time swiping screens with their thumbs than using them for any sort of enjoyably lubricated stimulation. i would strongly suggest the later. if illiterately texted communiques about hyped-up ultra-violent authoritarian identity activism is what we have to look forward to from the “anarchist” scene, well, i guess i got me some new enemies.

as far as this general situation…
yeah, let’s act like authoritarian assholes who inflict physical pain on those who disagree with us and call out anyone who questions our behavior to be engaging in “respectability politics and peace policing”. nice way to cover your transathoritarianism (aka tranarchy). that’s what it is. not conforming to the gendered reality that is prioritized by a culture is one thing, very anarchistic in motivation, agreed, but to physically enforce your beliefs on others who may have different values and perspectives, especially when they ultimately hold no specific authority over you that could be described in any meaningful way, is nothing short of authoritarian. stop calling yourselves anarchists, you are rainbow-shirted fascists pushing post-modern and hyper-civilized ideologies, not to mention hyper activists, since significant parts of your endgame seems to involve policy change of some sort, or some sort of bullied absolute acceptance from society and everyone in it, not anarchist at all. i am all for violence, no need to convince me of its value and inherent nature in the world, but what is going on here is both political violence (or violence as a political tool, which is always authoritarian), and just plain stupid.

add to this moronic activity and explanation the loaded, hyperbolic and grossly misused “trigger-words” like “genocide” and “Trans Exterminationist” really. fuck you. as an insurrectionary non-binary jewish anarchist, this is beyond insulting. i will be coming next time, not to support WDI, fuck them too, of course, but to go toe to toe you. why would anyone believe any of your accounts or analysis of this situation when you present as seething ideological reactionaries yourselves. I would love to watch you and the tankies battle it out in a pit of vipers, you are really not very different. Now that’s some porn i could watch, anyway…

so, let’s summarize for the kids at home, when people are not convinced by your nonsensical ideas and your obtuse words, resort to smashing their faces, brilliant. and if anyone has anything to say about it, they are either liberals, transphobic, or potentially dead. hmmmm. can’t say i didn’t see this coming, the intersection of antifa-like knuckle-headed over-simplistic bullying, hyper-identity politics (but of course never conceding to that, in fact you are against it, right?), oogle-defined understandings of ultra-violence, brain-dead subordinates and trenders, escalating performance after performance, portland (enough said), and, of course, places like ANews to post this and remove comments that step out of line with the world-wide-woke agenda! it is past time for authentic anarchists to push back hard on all of this bullshit, otherwise, game over.

Can't say I disagree with your take down. The identitarian rainbow political gang is not what good anarchy is.

WDI and WOLF both use the state to limit what kinds of medical care people have access to. You actually think attacking people who use the state to restrict people's freedom is authoritarian? Might as well say "All these authoritarians out there attacking cops because they disagree with them"

The State exists to restrict freedom. period. By your logic everyone who voted in the last election is fair game. or anyone who pays taxes.

"Identity politics is fascist violent authoritarianism"

-insurrectionary non-binary jewish anarchist

wow. way to misquote completely. i guess that's how people argue these days, straw arguments, misrepresentation, and lies. cool. not to mention missing the point completely.

1. the typing quirks in the tranarchy paragraph references the way people within late 2000s and early 2010s emo culture would type. for some reason in queer spaces this has gained some popularity, possibly because emo culture at that time was queer in some ways
2. if you believe trans authoritarianism within nominally anarchist spaces is a thing you have zero brain cells. nobody's gonna force you to produce synthetic estrogen in your anti-civ utopia

if what they are saying is true, then good for them. No need for biological essentialism or hatred towards transsexuals.

It seems pretty post-modern and hyper-civilized to deny that biology has any "reality" at all....and I don't think that everyone who questions the trans orthodoxy are "genocidal" or "eliminationist"; I'm an anti-civilization anarchist who has a lot of questions about "puberty blockers", but would probably get the shit beat out of me by woke authoritarians if I expressed my doubts at what passes for an anarchist bookfair these days...

are folks who want to cross dress. You are probably corrrect about this cancelation, its one group of identitarians fighting another. It feels equally hyper-civilized to comment on here about events that i didnt attend, about people who are battling on the terms that they have been labeled.

"good for them"? It seems like they were going for low-hanging fruit, and a relatively feeble enemy...I don't personally see anything "noble" or "righteous" about this performative holier-than-thou charade...

If true, than this debacle is even worst than the infamous bank arson in Greece where an employee died in the fire. Because there, that was an accident, or at worst a "collateral damage", yet not one that is excusable

But here, some elderly women was brutally beaten by a group of (yes) cowardly, feeble thugs who're posing as some Trans vanguard, and one that for some mysterious reasons is associating itself with anarchism. Or are they really in fact just Trans archists? Coz that'd make a lot more sense from that angle. These people aren't just clearly not anarchists, but also just as bad as any fucking wife-beater out there.

The Trans ID pols don't cover for anything they did. Or it does... in the same way as any authoritarian political dogma does. But performatively, not effectively.

So I'd rather not even call that an insult or spoiling of US anarchism. There's just nothing anarchist with the clowns who wrote this long drivel above, so this is more representative of fanatical ultra-liberalism, or what Instagram does to you.

you really missed an opportunity here to say "tranguard", do better next time

portmanteaus that good don't just come along every day

Actually beaten up? Evidence?

The lady above her is smiling. Just because the psychos who wrote this say "they beat up some smelly terfs", doesnt make it true.

There is so much fake looking about this article, and thecollective erased my comment when i pointed out anti-terfers could have used a.i. to generate images. It seems like a victory cheer, yet the people who submitted this obviously weren't trying to be generous towards people who have sympathy/empathy. It's trash, like so many articles here.

very impressed that somebody was able to tag so well on a moving target!

yuppie soccer mom puffer jacket, instantly transformed in to punk drip! early xmas miracle

It's sOoo funny when small, elderly women get beat up by big strong young people simply for saying stupid things.
OBEY OR DIE
UwU

Before civilization, this was a frequent occurrence, usually it was the elderly mother of a woman married the night before, who later in religious civilized cultures became known as the "mother-inlaw"

With folks for hating terfs, that is how my feeble brain sees this nonsense..."lets attack strangers because their enshrined leader is a moron".

Imagine being a White supremacist homophobe scumfuck and using the cover of being a Black Trans woman so you can have a field day posting all the high-school toilets level of misogyny, homophia and racism... It happened quite a few times on the Aplanet IRC, so why not here? :-/

it seems like this kind of stuff is always directed at women. am i wrong? when is the last time dave chappelle or ricky gervais got pied or had their tires slashed? i know they're celebs and harder to reach but what about "billboard chris" or other male trans-deniers?

i am not in alignment with the person above who wants to "toe to toe" these kids-- there are MUCH better uses of energy-- but it is refreshing to see some critique and pushback here in the comments.

Of violent/moralistic identity politics don't deserve praise and support. This goes for both the people who wrote this and "women's liberationists".

If making light hearted jokes about transexuals...

i take it as a given that i cant force others to understand me and let me do wtf i want

somehow deserves some aggressive call-out culture punishment, then please transport me to a different planet. It's not anarchist.

The amount and level of trans-phobia, bio-essentialism, and calling it authoritarian to fight trans-exterminationists in these comments is truly astonishing.
Is it also authoritarian to fight "people with different beliefs" such as white supremacists, nazis, etc.
Does it make sense to call 5 billion (tr)anarchists who fight people who want them dead an "identitarian rainbow gang"?
Or do ya'll just fucking hate trans people and believe that trans people and others have absolutely no right to self-defense or defense at all?
Gross that some of you consider yourself anarchists, pursuing acceptance(?) for people who want to murder trans people for who they are, watering it down to an "ideological difference", as if it's not rooted in the fact that these people incite targeted violence, use the tools and logistics of the state against trans people by drafting legislation, and are attempting to creating a culture of acceptable violence against trans people.
You all are probably the same shitbags who had to be convinced that punching nazis was okay, and even then you never had the fucking guts to do it.
identitarian authoritarians is a fucking hilarious way to talk about trans people who beat up some TERFs.

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I don't want policy change, I believe that violence is the only answer against trans-extermination

Seeing terfism and bioessentiallism in the a-news comment section should be a surprise to no-one. Terf shit was so widespread in green anarchist spaces up until a decade ago. It was projects like BB that really changed the culture within the North American anarchist milieu (for the better) away from eco-feminism and Terfism. The terfs changed but they never went away, they just reframe their arguments as being a critique of "identity politics" and "cybernetics," but when you look under the mask it's the same tired conservativism that opposes morphological freedom

Could you define "morphological freedom"? And how does it relate to the neccesity for a Techno-Industrial System? Are Technology, fossil fuels and the pharmacuetical industry required for it?

you were on point until you mentioned "morphological freedom" and then it was obvious you don't care about any of these issues; you just want to 'gotcha' people who are hesitant about uncritical technological development

I'm definitely hesitant about UNCRITICAL technological development ( and its effects on the human animal)...aren't you?

Don't blame this mob behavior on Green Anarchists; Blame it on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and the fact that 6-year old children have cellphones...

You do realize that being trans has nothing to do with "medical care" or "hormone treatment" or "surgical "reconstruction"", right? I mean you can't POSSIBLY be that dumb and uninformed and also figure out how to use the internet, right? Don't vanish into anon shame I am really asking!

even if you could make the argument that transness existed before all those things among some foreign cultures throughout History, you're ignoring what transness actually entails in our current 2023 context, which DOES involve "all those things", i.e: puberty blockers, mastectomies, etc.

so are you going to actually mount an argument of substance or does the empty and vapid gaslighting continue or... ???

i would agree that a trans individual does not have to have anything to do with it, for sure. excellent. agreed. that's the majority of non-activism trans-life. but that's different than most trans-activism, and in particular, one of the things these ultra-violent-trans activists were pushing back on, so let's not play games. when someone says "you want us dead", they are usually referencing "medical treatments", so again, let's not play dumb, unless you are not playing....

Someone asked earlier what is meant by the "medical care" that these TERF creatures want to deny trans people, but I never saw that question answered and I'm trying to figure it out myself: what's all this controversy over medical care (or the denial of it)? Does anyone know?

I mean, it seems likely that no one *identified* as "trans" before those things. It seems weird that you want to impose an identity on people in the past in order to make them fit into our contemporary categories.

the CHUDs use "WOKEISM" as a designation for some ideology. The fact, tho, is that it's not even ideology but a spectacular empty shell consisting of representations and static positions, and not based on any theory whatsoever.

More importantly, the conundrum of "bioessentialism".... You're the one who's being bioessentialist if you beleive that a sex change and hormone therapy is what is needed to become a women. A women is a socially-generated gender category, not a biological reality. Females, tho, are biological reality... yet they don't define a gender by themselves.

So if someone truly identifies (not due to some social media-driven tendency or any other external politics but due to themselves) as women despite being male by birth, they CAN be a woman without needing to change their own bodies. as that is within the cultural sphere of representations and sensibilities, not biology.

You're advocating your own pitfalls...

Hey, I'm a woman who drives 18 wheelers interstate, and I feel like a man, but when I gwt back to my biological kids who I breast fed, I'm a women.. That is myself and I don't need a woke movement to tell me otherwise!

Who of those targeted in Portland have actually proclaimed that they want to MURDER (YOUR words) trans people?

When did anews turn into such an ID pol shit show? Remember when it used to have something to do with the post-left?

this all looks pretty post-left to me!

rad fems? very antique left
respectability politics? we're clearly not bothering with that bullshit
performing victimization for the cameras? classic leftist move but it didn't work here cuz their shit got rocked
DGR and Lierre? absolutely trapped in assumptions from bygone environmental movement, therefore LEFTIST

so yeah, conclusively post left action, right jason? thanks for pointing this out!
good talk bro!

Sad about the gist of a lot of the comments, I'd like to think some alt right people might swarmed in with how many of their talking points are being echoed but I ain't so sure.

I thought the writeups were a little obnoxious and melodramatic, and in general think LIerre Keith's groups are a pretty irrelevant joke in the grand scheme of the anti-trans stuff going on right now, but if that was trillions of people's idea of a good time, I'm not complaining.

I am disturbed by the air of hostility to the notion that trans people could possibly have any grievances in a time where they are very much being used a safer enemy for fascists and theocrats to unify against. A lot of trans radicalism is embarrassing cause a lot of radicalism is embarrassing. All the transphobic shit here just tells a population that a huge swath of the government is attacking that the post left or whatever is a place they're not welcome.

fear not, this is just the work of a single troll who apparently has taken on the full-time job of spamming this thread. whatever is left up is an artifact of the mod's sleeping/working/afk schedule, or even the troll's need to take a break. in general, anarchist news' comments should not be taken to be as representative of the pulse of any small group, much less any larger population, since it only over-represents those few terminally online anons who find it worthwhile to spam threads with the same take, when we heard them clearly the first 20 times

are you sure about this? if so, how? i have talked to (in actual real time and space) to multiple people who have commented here, and most of their comments have been taken down. nice, neat, and easy to write it all off as one obsessed troll, isn't it? anyway, when i checked in here this morning there was something like 95 comments (a couple by me to specific points made by different comments) and now there are 30something....that means 2/3rds have been taken down by the mods. hmmmmm. interesting. very interesting, and stupid.

sure ok, maybe 2 or 3 equally pathetic and obsessed pieces of shit with the same brainworms so they might as well be the same person. there ya go! happy now? j/k, don't care

This seems to be a new low for the mods of “A”news, who are now more than fine with deciding for the rest of us what we should read and not, funneling conversations where they want them to go, and then grossly lumping all opinions and tones contrary to the latest anarcho-woke orthodoxy into the “obsessed troll” category who are allegedly “those few terminally online anons” (probably incels too, fuck, do you read what you write?). are you looking into your own black mirror?? an anonymous and unaccountable (by this i do not mean judicially, but practically, so we know who you are to directly challenge you instead of each individual hiding behind a nebulous mask) collective of moderators who seem perpetually glued to their screens in order to zap out anything they don’t like, sculpting and directing the discourse. statements like “comments should not be taken to be as representative of the pulse of any small group, much less any larger population” is about as incorrectly arrogantly dismissive of contrary thoughts than i could imagine, obviously they don’t “represent” anything but what they are, but stating it in this light undermines their legitimacy here in a very cheap way, not really the role of a mod, right? maybe ya’ll could get a position on biden’s reelection campaign. i know “A”news mods are “bored” with the complaints, but it just keeps getting worse. one way to get less complaints, rather than complain about the complaints, is to do better. you say “Write what you want to see, for fuck’s sake”, but then you delete it when it doesn’t pass your lame formerly post-left now anarcho-liberal litmus. there were a number of back and forth responses that i was appreciating in this particular thread. i was better understanding where different sides of these issues were coming from and the nuances, concerns, and even anger involved, then *poof* gone, and the mods are like “get back on track kids, next time the ruler comes out, go stand in the corner, we won’t let a few bad apples distract us”. it is also interesting that this seems to mostly happen when the topic is in certain realms that the mods feel more specifically defensive of, you know what they are. sssshhhhh. anyway, this is what really stinks around here.

that was a lot of energy in that polemic!

so this ... THIS COMMENT THREAD (?!?) ... this is where you've come to learn about these issues?

btw, that's the only substantive assertion in your long screed

The future is transhuman and so is the past. The only thing that's changed are the technologies of the self.

"technologies of the self."= cosmetic surgery, penile implants, botox, silicon breasts, puberty blockers, etc etc

never thought i would see anarchists moralizing over people modifying their freedom, like a bog standard conservative. amazing!

When was the last time a gathering of transphobic cis men was attacked? Frankly, beating up old women is out of proportion to their alleged crimes. Shoulda just pulled the alarm and broken windows. This is overkill. Shit happens but it's not actually like badass and cool it's more like a whoops went too far moment.

"When was the last time a gathering of transphobic cis men was attacked? "

really, happens all the time. isn't that what people were doing when they confronted the proud boys ritualistically? no tears shed over them, for sure, but at least stop the dishonest victim shit.

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13.38
have you heard of non sequitors? 'cause you sure just pulled one. the question was about cis men getting jumped for being transphobic--admittedly not in the question, but the context makes that clear.

so your response that cis men who are probably also transphobic get beat up for being racist is a subtle change of subject. sneaky. but we see you.

have you heard of non-sequiturs?? the proud boys are “western chauvinists” not necessarily “racist”. not to excuse them, they suck for sure, just thought it was relevant since you love pointing out non-sequiturs. not being sneaky, and oh no you see me, so afraid. calm the fuck down.

if you honestly believe "western chauvinism" doesn't include some thinly veiled racism, think you should also buy my discount timeshare on the moon?

Just think, your very own subpar condo on the moon! wouldn't that be cool? cash up front.

oh 12:26...

the point, again, since you need people to speak VERY CLEARLY, is that transphobia was not the reason that the cis white men got beat up.
(you repeating someone's style makes you neither clever nor funny, especially when the original wasn't even very clever or funny. find better imitation material_)

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