While covering the Portland protests in 2020, I met several anarchists. I've stayed in touch with one, and while we don't often agree on issues, our messages have always been congenial. Last week, he wanted to "alert" me to an upcoming budget deal in New York
This is so true. And I think "fuck the corporations" is as much a post hoc rationalisation (like people who steal from cvs wouldn't also steal from a bodega?).
As well as the dehumanisation of "acceptable" targets (which is all of social media, with it's tropes of designated villains who can be memed and threatened), it's just the corrosiveness of the thefts to the community. Everyone who witnesses them feel a bit less safe shopping there, feels a bit more like the law is failing.
This is so true. And I think "fuck the corporations" is as much a post hoc rationalisation (like people who steal from cvs wouldn't also steal from a bodega?).
As well as the dehumanisation of "acceptable" targets (which is all of social media, with it's tropes of designated villains who can be memed and threatened), it's just the corrosiveness of the thefts to the community. Everyone who witnesses them feel a bit less safe shopping there, feels a bit more like the law is failing.
I think the ethos that brings you the feelings you catalogue are close relatives to the ethos that brings you unsafe NYC (and other places).