Shit like this just makes me extremely suspicious of what secrets this org is hiding.
Small/medium political sects (of any tendancy) have a pretty bad record to start with, and then someone feels the need to repeatedly defend people like this? Even in the best case it’s extremely poor political judgment and disconnection from people’s reality, and a bad signal of who will be attracted or repelled as members/supporters.
They unfortunately aren’t the only offender, but they might be the most stubborn and vocal about it.
Oh, two of the sex pests defended by the World Socialist Web Site
Ugh WSWS is so fucking bad.
Shit like this just makes me extremely suspicious of what secrets this org is hiding.
Small/medium political sects (of any tendancy) have a pretty bad record to start with, and then someone feels the need to repeatedly defend people like this? Even in the best case it’s extremely poor political judgment and disconnection from people’s reality, and a bad signal of who will be attracted or repelled as members/supporters.
They unfortunately aren’t the only offender, but they might be the most stubborn and vocal about it.
I think at minimum the writers identify more with the abusers than the abused