CW: abuse, abusers, survivors

abolish the police ALSO means abolishing cancel culture.

cancel culture is a punitive response to crimes or pains that someone has inflicted & that’s why it DOESN’T WORK.

prisons do not rehabilitate, reteach & realign those they hold captive.

carceral punishment does not uproot the causes of ones behavior.

so if we’re calling for abolition and putting ACAB everywhere on our social media profiles, we also need to abolish the cancel culture cop INSIDE OF US.

this means that organizing lists of “cancelled” harmdoers

& abusers is not abolition, it is in fact CREATING A NEW POLICING SYSTEM.

I know this is difficult, especially for survivors of violent abuse, but cancel culture has absolutely nothing to do with accountability & that’s what we need to repair & prevent abuse.

again, we need accountability to repair & prevent abuse. cancelling someone does not create accountability. we cannot force that.

so excluding someone from our social circles & even outing our abusers publically are natural responses to abuse.

but when we rally

around a public database of names, WITHOUT contacting & building relationships with those named, and supporting their accountability processes (again, if they want too), we are essential calling for a quasi-communal policing system.

if anyone reading this wants to talk about accountability with me, PLS HIT ME UP.

I’ve done accountability meetings with my friends to address abuse & harm in my own relationships & I am working with my partner on education around accountability in intimate partner abuse.

WE CAN IMAGINE BETTER SOLUTIONS