Recently user alaksaball has identified themselves as a member of the Party of Communists USA. The user also promoted the event “RageAgainstTheWarMachine” as well as PCUSA’s official twitter account on this website. When questioned by other users about engaging in the promotion and platforming of fascists and reactionaries, alaskaball responded with hostility and name-calling. As anticipated, the event “RageAgainstTheWarMachine” was attended by prominent neo-Nazis and featured speakers who espoused homophobic and transphobic views, and used homophobic slurs and anti-trans rhetoric as official speakers at the event. Furthermore, user alaskaball has promoted the official Twitter of PCUSA, which has frequently platformed Jackson Hinkle who is on camera at the aforementioned event using homophobic slurs. User Alaskaball’s personal feelings towards LGBTQ people are irrelevant, as the user continues to platform an organization and events that are in direct contradiction of the standards of this website, and is therefore unfit to moderate communities.
It’s not exactly “recent” that Alaskaball has identified here as a member of PCUSA, I’d say they’ve been repping that party for going on 2 years now. My only thoughts were “I wish you good luck with that, I have an unfavorable opinion of all the other communist parties in this country”.
I’ve never had any issue with Alaskaball; I’ve absorbed a lot of history and theory from them and this is the first I’ve heard of them being confrontational. It is true that many leftist orgs have a propensity to foster reactionary attitudes; I think this is partly due to small size, partly due to ubiquitous capitalist propaganda, and partly due to not having a strong philosophical foundation for identifying and opposing reactionary thought.
