In The Politics of Denunciation, Kristian Williams nicely articulates the authoritarian nature of political correctness on the Left and lays out a way past it: A year ago, on February 28, 2013, at an event titled “Patriarchy and the Movement,” I watched as a friend of mine attempted to pose several questions based on her experience trying to address domestic violence and other abuse in the context of radical organizing. “Why have the forms of accountability processes that we’ve seen in radical subcultures so regularly failed?” she asked. “Is there a tension between supporting a
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