@formication @AlgorithmWolf @driftwood @errante @prouddegenerate another really underappreciated point is that people seem to regard 'suppression' as some sort of simple and clean process, where it really isnt. especially if you are trying to be an anarchist
if you're a tankie and already into this sort of centralized power structure and ok with throwing people out because they believe one or another thing, then fair enough. but tankies also weirdly seem to believe that soviets would've been really into pansexual pride picrew avatars with kemononomimi instead of viewing it as fascist libertinism and sending those adorned in it to norilsk to mine nickel for the state. which goes to show your definition of fascism may be different from this surpressing authority's, and now it's dangerous to talk about it
but a lot of ostensible anarchists are also ostensibly against carceral punishment, and for rehabilitation, and suppression isn't rehabilitative. it's important to understand /why/ someone ends up with these belief systems if you want a chance to work with them in a way that is constructive rather than destructive