Definitely agree that Shane Burley and friends (Portland antifa writers) fit the bill of who this author is somewhat mysteriously poking. It has also been pointed out over social media that “Grim” Kim Kelly’s (writer for Teen Vogue) newest book on unions was also perhaps indirectly hinted at by the articles author, Nerd Teacher.
On Shane Burley: Here is one tweet from Burley that pretty much sums them up in a nutshell: “I think we can all agree that Atassa should go in the dumpster, Aragorn is a fascist creep, and we can drop LBC into the sea.” (May 13, 2019) For context, this tweet of theirs was a reply to an Alexander Reid Ross tweet that was originally a tweet from Kevin Tucker praising Burley’s newest book at the time “Fascism Today: What it is and how to end it.” All the fun people are there!
Ignoring the good times, two important takeaways from Burley’s tweet are 1.) they’re calling Aragorn! a fascist and 2.) they are implying that LBC be dropped into the sea. While they don’t go out and say it directly, the implication is that the people at LBC would be dropped into the sea by a helicopter. After initially reading the text, this was the first image and thought that came to mind. The practice of dropping people into the sea, was one often done by actual fascist supporting governmental regimes against anarchists across Latin America. Burley knows this, but continues to threaten anarchists in such ways over social media with their friends who live off this drama. This is the future Burley wants for anarchists they disagree with (pretty much everyone, except for the Black Rose Anarchist Federation).
Now, Burley is once again releasing a new book from AK Press that will include a conversation with governmental worker Alexander Reid Ross at the book launch event. Ross being a questionable academic who is/was working along many former “deep state” figures like heads of the CIA and DHS for a think tank funded by a notorious right-wing billionaire.
Coming back around to the first part of their tweet, Burley mentioned the Atassa book. Thinking about the point Nerd Teacher made in the original text about anarchist publishers being unwilling to take risks, I’m reminded of this book as well. In many ways, unfortunately - it feels like a case and point example. Aragorn!, one of the publishers of the book, with Little Black Cart being the larger project and publishing umbrella has mentioned publicly at least once (on a podcast) that they might not have published Atassa #1 if they had realized the amount of problems it was going to cause for the Little Black Cart publishing project. The amount of problems it continues to cause for the publisher (just by looking at public social media around some bookfairs and certain Portland people) doesn’t seem fun, nor anarchist practice. I doubt that Burley actually ever read the books and is just going along with the general public outrage, 100%. Burley and friends have been a big part of trying to cancel an anarchist publisher from tabling bookfairs, many times successfully it seems, with the goal of trying to destroy an anarchist project they disagree with.
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Definitely agree that Shane Burley and friends (Portland antifa writers) fit the bill of who this author is somewhat mysteriously poking. It has also been pointed out over social media that “Grim” Kim Kelly’s (writer for Teen Vogue) newest book on unions was also perhaps indirectly hinted at by the articles author, Nerd Teacher.
On Shane Burley: Here is one tweet from Burley that pretty much sums them up in a nutshell: “I think we can all agree that Atassa should go in the dumpster, Aragorn is a fascist creep, and we can drop LBC into the sea.” (May 13, 2019) For context, this tweet of theirs was a reply to an Alexander Reid Ross tweet that was originally a tweet from Kevin Tucker praising Burley’s newest book at the time “Fascism Today: What it is and how to end it.” All the fun people are there!
Ignoring the good times, two important takeaways from Burley’s tweet are 1.) they’re calling Aragorn! a fascist and 2.) they are implying that LBC be dropped into the sea. While they don’t go out and say it directly, the implication is that the people at LBC would be dropped into the sea by a helicopter. After initially reading the text, this was the first image and thought that came to mind. The practice of dropping people into the sea, was one often done by actual fascist supporting governmental regimes against anarchists across Latin America. Burley knows this, but continues to threaten anarchists in such ways over social media with their friends who live off this drama. This is the future Burley wants for anarchists they disagree with (pretty much everyone, except for the Black Rose Anarchist Federation).
Now, Burley is once again releasing a new book from AK Press that will include a conversation with governmental worker Alexander Reid Ross at the book launch event. Ross being a questionable academic who is/was working along many former “deep state” figures like heads of the CIA and DHS for a think tank funded by a notorious right-wing billionaire.
Coming back around to the first part of their tweet, Burley mentioned the Atassa book. Thinking about the point Nerd Teacher made in the original text about anarchist publishers being unwilling to take risks, I’m reminded of this book as well. In many ways, unfortunately - it feels like a case and point example. Aragorn!, one of the publishers of the book, with Little Black Cart being the larger project and publishing umbrella has mentioned publicly at least once (on a podcast) that they might not have published Atassa #1 if they had realized the amount of problems it was going to cause for the Little Black Cart publishing project. The amount of problems it continues to cause for the publisher (just by looking at public social media around some bookfairs and certain Portland people) doesn’t seem fun, nor anarchist practice. I doubt that Burley actually ever read the books and is just going along with the general public outrage, 100%. Burley and friends have been a big part of trying to cancel an anarchist publisher from tabling bookfairs, many times successfully it seems, with the goal of trying to destroy an anarchist project they disagree with.