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What's up with people claiming PSL shields predators? [CW: mentions of SA] (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there any veracity to the claim that "the PSL covered up SA allegations"? I hear it constantly from people who are opposed to the PSL. I wanna know if this is just an attempt at smearing them or an actual valid concern

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the measured reply! It's easy for me to get heated when I feel like I'm getting boxed into a position I don't really hold.

No need for a defense of yourself re my "ignored" comment - apologies for insinuating that you were. That's more of a rhetorical device reflecting my frustration with the topic as a whole.

On the doxxing, I think "Griselda" (the alleged victim's pseudonym) did name the other girl involved in at least a Twitter post. There's a screenshot of a Twitter post in one of those docs where she's asking pslweb to take down her own real name, and I think they had her name in the now-removed letter that was signed.

Idk, this shit is complicated and there's way too much to read.

*One edit: regarding your chapter/national split, I mostly agree, but I think a situation poorly handled by a local chapter still does reflect poorly on the national org. They're the local representative of the national org.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for clearing things up.

*One edit: regarding your chapter/national split, I mostly agree, but I think a situation poorly handled by a local chapter still does reflect poorly on the national org. They're the local representative of the national org.

Yeah, I probably should have specified that this is true, but I was trying to avoid getting too in the weeds and made an error. My thing is that a chapter going to hell without the direct worsening of things by the national org is more a problem of negligence or poor construction of their onboarding systems, etc. rather than being culpable themselves of harboring abusers. Both are still harmful behaviors and should be treated as such and it's possible PSL did both (the case is very murky, as you say), but I just want to be clear on the standards I'm asserting for guilt since it isn't something one should speak lightly on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Fair enough!