Article: "Coming Out: Meaningful Political Statement or Performative Martyrdom?"

[BLueRibbon]

For one thing, I think keeping it a secret can put you in some precarious positions; say you don't know whether a person knows you're a MAP, and they invite you to anti-MAP vigilante group - you can go along pretending you're not a MAP or you can refuse and raise their suspicion. Either way there's risk. An open MAP doesn't have to put themselves in risky positions in order to conceal their own identity.

I know you're merely raising a hypothetical, but it just sounds like social anxiety, to be honest.

"Sorry, I don't want to get involved in that kind of thing" would be a perfectly normal and reasonable response to being asked to join a vigilante group.

[anarchist of love]

i continue to think, "in my gut feeling" that we need BOTH persons willing to come OUT, as well as people willing to INFILTRATE anti-MAP groups (as well as folks working on many other projects). i'm sure such is already happening, but it would be better if groups like you all would openly back those called to such situations.

The principle i'm thinking of is that many people don't trust what passes for Normal. If one has "the balls" to stand up, putting their life on the line, for what is in their HEART, i've noted many people having A LOT OF respect for that.

It's a "lonely" path unless you can tap into powers beyond our collective domestication!

Powers that have been actively and systematically separated from the "Realistic" awareness of most people. For "good" reason (of statecraft). We are programmed to flail at each other so that those behind the ideology of statecraft can continue with their program without "the meddling of the trampling outsiders".

Here, John Zerzan (the anarchist) would be a good read for many of you, I suspect. Zerzan himself won't like it, but he needs to have an attitude adjustment, anyway!! Heh.