🧵 ok so prob you've seen posts going on about artisan cooperative eh? its an etsy alternative that seems to be trying to sell ppl that it being a co-op, means its better.
Maybe in some ways? but their website has a lot of red flags to me, the things they link seem not anti-corporate so much as sorta left-washing the concept of ownership class?
anyway, i asked what they were going to do about white supremacy amongst members, and what of poor people. here's their BS response.
(screenie is a bit weird because i used firefox's tool and had to scroll)
Anyway their reply is in summary "fuck off and get out of our mentions"
No clue what tehy mean by legal minimums and I run a co-op myself, but we are a collective & 3/4s of us are Native.
I don't want to give them free advice (you shouldn't either, they've got start up money) but how is this not "we are anti-classist (which u didn't ask about) and anti-racist so we will ignore that racism and classism exist owo"
I did message them feeling very unsafe with them but I was hopeful. like yeah they're all corpo speak but MAYBE that's just in public??? Nope. they're corpo. they are tricking you into thinking they know anything about being egalitarian anything while using words like "sociocracy". if you are white, do not let them pull the wool over your eyes. you are worth more than the shit they are shoveling you.
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