This morning my coworking space the Innovation Hub hosted something called Creative Mornings. As they were setting up when I went into the office, they hyped it up and I said I'd attend. I love creativity and thought this would be a good social way to get some inspiration.
Imagine my surprise when instead of discussing creativity, the speakers were the exact same "underground" Facebook mutual aid group that had protested my Resiliency Salon earlier this year.
I was very amused that they read off a definition of mutual aid, which absolutely applies to my projects. So why was their big shouting point to me earlier this year about how we weren't doing mutual aid? It's almost as if they want to be the arbiters of truth in this matter and when someone isn't one of "them" they're automatically an enemy without any thought or consideration.
The amount of focus they put into how to have an "underground" event was really adorable. It's like they know there's a problem with surveillance, but can't grasp that they aren't solving it with traditional social media.
"You can't make public Facebook posts! For underground events, you have to rely on private Facebook messages and private WhatsApp group chats!"
I don't understand why they brought such antagonism to my group. Perhaps because I didn't spend the first 30 minutes of my talks apologizing for being a privileged white lady. I didn't say anything at their meeting, because I don't like to waste my energy being rude.
I do feel disappointed because I thought I was going to get some inspiration and instead I got bland legacy social media talking points by people who made me feel bad about my efforts because I don't subscribe to their politics.
Luckily a number of my Salon members were there and stopped by my office afterwards to catch up on mesh communication information and to tell me how much they appreciated my group being a politics free zone, so that was nice.
Imagine my surprise when instead of discussing creativity, the speakers were the exact same "underground" Facebook mutual aid group that had protested my Resiliency Salon earlier this year.
I was very amused that they read off a definition of mutual aid, which absolutely applies to my projects. So why was their big shouting point to me earlier this year about how we weren't doing mutual aid? It's almost as if they want to be the arbiters of truth in this matter and when someone isn't one of "them" they're automatically an enemy without any thought or consideration.
The amount of focus they put into how to have an "underground" event was really adorable. It's like they know there's a problem with surveillance, but can't grasp that they aren't solving it with traditional social media.
"You can't make public Facebook posts! For underground events, you have to rely on private Facebook messages and private WhatsApp group chats!"
I don't understand why they brought such antagonism to my group. Perhaps because I didn't spend the first 30 minutes of my talks apologizing for being a privileged white lady. I didn't say anything at their meeting, because I don't like to waste my energy being rude.
I do feel disappointed because I thought I was going to get some inspiration and instead I got bland legacy social media talking points by people who made me feel bad about my efforts because I don't subscribe to their politics.
Luckily a number of my Salon members were there and stopped by my office afterwards to catch up on mesh communication information and to tell me how much they appreciated my group being a politics free zone, so that was nice.
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