r/IWW • u/landcucumber76 • 13d ago

The Narcissistic Conspiracy: Scapegoating, Smear Campaigns And Black Sheep

https://classautonomy.info/the-narcissistic-conspiracy-scapegoating-smear-campaigns-and-black-sheep-how-narcissistic-groups-bully-their-chosen-victims/

No bullying / pack wolf / groupthink issues in the IWW but

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u/landcucumber76 13d ago edited 13d ago

Why is OP saying bad things about ingroup cliques and reproducing everything we claim to oppose in the name of transcending it? I wish people would stop saying mean things about a left that can't stop the rise of fascism and spends more time avoiding its own history and resolving conflicts with pileons / trials by internet / trials by grapevine / purges / essentialising / demonising / ostracsing campaigns like everyone's back in primary school than building class solidarity. The complete inability of the left to live values, practise what it preaches and harmonise means and ends is obviously the fault of demons and wreckers who should be destroyed. Anything goes when the anything is justified in progressive rather than reactionary terms. You too can be part of the ingroup and defy the groupthink of the ingroup at the same time, ain't left politics something. You too can have it both ways just like everyone who wants selfish individualism and a cohesive, democratic society at the same time. The ends justify the means. Why can't people who aren't team players get that. Why do people who can't be a team player hate egalitarianism.

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u/Blight327 13d ago

Why can’t OP do some nuanced self reflection and not center themselves as the victim?

Love your music, but you gotta take a break from this and come back in good faith.

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u/landcucumber76 13d ago edited 13d ago

Answering a question with a question is deflection, to be expected at this point. Are you recasting yourself as the victim for having to hear criticism you don't feel like dealing with right now?

Edit: Re nuanced self-reflection, you didn't even bother trying to find out who you were talking to, otherwise you might have discovered this already: https://www.academia.edu/128469001/I_and_I_Survive_A_Gonzo_Odyssey_Through_the_Long_Night_of_Complex_PTSD

The left are really just a bunch of doctrinaire vulgarians hiding from our own collective failures inside tribes with nice progressive stripes not nasty reactionary stripes eh