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Hey @AidCincinnati @benneyclem do not speak for me. Do not speak for the other survivors. Do not use our abuse & the trauma of this whole situation to push some narrative & to make yourselves look righteous.
I find it incredibly fucked up that you said that I support my own abuser just because I told you to fuck yourself for using my abuse for your own gain. You’re overstepping and you look like fucking assholes.
I wasn’t really ready to speak on this just yet, but because of tweets like y’all’s I am now forced to set the record straight. So here it is, what REALLY happened.
An EC member was accused of sexual assault & harassment by 5 people. They were suspended from the org (temporarily, as they are appealing the decision). That member was in a relationship with two other EC members. Another EC member was in a relationship with one of them...
...but not the abuser. These 3 members stood up for the abuser and continued to support them & be in relationships/close friends with them.
& yeah, ya know, I would say it was a huge oversight to allow 4 members that are in relationships with one another all on EC.
& yeah, ya know, I would say it was a huge oversight to allow 4 members that are in relationships with one another all on EC.
To my knowledge, they made up half the EC. In my opinion that was wrong & this situation really highlighted that.
But to say the entire EC was in a polycule together & supported the abuser is wildly false. The grievance officers were very kind & handled the situation as ...
But to say the entire EC was in a polycule together & supported the abuser is wildly false. The grievance officers were very kind & handled the situation as ...
... well as they could. There were other EC members that I didn’t speak to directly, but know they were supportive of the survivors.
This experience has likely been really difficult for them as well & to spread this misinformation is fucked.
This experience has likely been really difficult for them as well & to spread this misinformation is fucked.
No one asked me to make this thread, I am doing it out of my own free will. I do think that this was a serious issue and that the organization needs to do some major healing & changing, but I’m not a DSA member, so I’m not informed on how they plan to do that.
Some of my best comrades are in DSA. I don’t like to see people using my abuse & everything else that’s happened as a tool for your pathetic vendetta against other political organizations in town & indirectly painting those excellent comrades in a horrible light.
The abuser has done so much harm to so many people. I do not support them. I have had sleepless nights wondering why all of this was happening.
Have your political disagreements with DSA all you want, but keep my abuse out of it.
Have your political disagreements with DSA all you want, but keep my abuse out of it.
I’m sure the DSA will be speaking to this in some way, but felt the need to say something in the mean time. I really wish a survivor was the one to speak out first. But people want to get likes & RTs with ~super hot gossip~ as if one of us wasn’t going to see it.
