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Honestly its rude to be invited by a country to meet their president who decided to respond to your criticisms of their administration only to not show up and go meet the opposition.

Being invided and then no showing shows complete disregard to basic diplomatic Etiquette since it was a mission to show solidarity against the embargo

Bonus socdems being cringe part 4.5: about another member that didnt show up to the presidential meeting

Deeply unserious people

  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Honestly how is that? This is always so vague. There was one high profile case that the organization was slow to respond

    Are you referring to the Steven Powers case? Because the issues there go further than failing to respond, they straight up used disciplinary measures to protect an abuser. And the Steven powers case isn’t the only one.

    I will admit my bias on this issue though, I’ve had several encounters with PSL members where they’ve disrespected my bodily autonomy in mild-moderate ways to the point that I feel it is a pattern and am more inclined to believe specific reports of abuse.

    Then we established a national-level body composed entirely of survivors to investigate and adjudicate these cases.

    Can you give me any details on this?

    Please elaborate.

    From what I’ve heard they use the idea of democratic centralism to shut down debate during the democratic process instead of after a decision has been reached democratically.

      • OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The result of the internal process around Steven Powers is that it was poorly handled at all levels and structures needed to be put in place to ensure that never happened again. The body I referred to above has final authority on any cases related to sexual impropriety, harassment, and abuse. Comrades are able to directly contact this body if they feel the need to go around intermediate leadership bodies for any reason.

        What other changes happened beyond being able to go to this body directly and skip intermediate leadership? Because that sounds like a good idea but also completely inadequate on its own.

        I’ve been in the party for two years and never seen anything like this. Our practice of democratic centralism is extremely democratic, and even candidates who don’t get a formal vote are given significant say in the process. I don’t know how else to repudiate something so vague.

        https://fashbusters.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/psl-stalked-doxxed-harassed-steven-powers-accuser/

        this goes into some misuse of democratic centralism in the Steven case. Not sure about the politics of the site but the evidence provided seems pretty damning. You’ll note that the issue with the case wasn’t a delayed reaction, the response by women in national leadership was pretty overtly anti-feminist.

          • OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            2 months ago

            What more would you suggest? Any accusation is an immediate suspension. Then it goes to this body. The system is simple and direct.

            The problem is that being able to escalate it to another committee doesn’t really resolve the organizational issues that allow abuse? Abuse takes a lot of grooming of accomplices, how does PSL inoculate against that and how do they determine what organizational failures within a group allowed for abuse to happen and correct them?

            The politics of the site is it’s an anarchist who hates PSL and exclusively writes about how PSL is and why tankies are bad.

            Oh, well fuck them then. The evidence from the org they present still paints a very shitty picture of the org. Is the letter from women in national leadership doctored?

              • OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                2 months ago

                The Powers instance was an established romantic relationship

                1. it is pretty common for people in orgs to get involved, it is something that should be planned for

                2. it seems like in this case the abuser was using people as accomplices, otherwise the response from the local org wouldn’t have been what it was.

                We also do our best to identify these behaviors during our month-long onboarding process,

                How?

                  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                    2 months ago

                    Genuinely what would you suggest?

                    How much political education goes into learning about how abuse culture perpetuates itself in activist subcultures?

                    Yes; there was no mechanism to go around local leadership. Now there is.

                    That’s kinda beside the point, that only helps if the victim is actually reporting

                    Explain the policy, talk a great deal about comradely behavior and expectations of conduct, and do our best to get their vibe. If that’s not sufficient I would again ask for a concrete suggestion.

                    I’d need to know more detail on how this is done.