All cancelers are bastards.

[zeroenthusiasm]

My opposition to what some people call “cancel culture” or “callout culture” is a direct logical extension of my opposition to the police and prisons--the opposition to retributive or punitive interpretations of justice

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[anonymous]

I think most of these authors would be squirming in their seats to know that someone who has committed multiple acts of gendered and sexual violence from grooming, to looking at underage girls, to rape is using their work to avoid any kind of accountability. You weren't cancelled you refused to take responsibility for anything you did to the MULTIPLE women who came forward. Your definition of "anarchism" is just in service to your avoidance of accountability.

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[zeroenthusiasm]

Hello again! It’s clear to me you probably haven’t clicked on any of those links, but I hope you do because there’s a lot of interesting information and perspective contained in them. Based on their work, I believe the authors would likely view me as the complex human being that I am and approach me with compassion and understanding, regardless of whether or not they believed I’ve done the things I’ve been accused of.

This entry is not just about the very real consequences of false accusations, which do happen and which I have been at the receiving end of, but is also largely a call to oppose punitive forms of “justice” for those who have done serious harm to others. A more in-depth entry about the details of the false accusations made against me will come soon

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[zeroenthusiasm]

Accountability has always been very important to me, which is why it’s always been crucial for me to remain open and honest in my public writing even when it came to things I was ashamed of. Not everything is available for public consumption anymore-I am a human and I am entitled to having certain things I keep to myself or between me and my loved ones-but I’ve never misrepresented myself. Offline, I have told literally every woman I’ve met since Kara’s first accusations back in 2014 that I am an accused abuser. Every person I am close to knows every shitty thing I’ve ever done, because I am accountable. I have risked relationships by going out of my way to divulge facts about my past to others I’ve cared about. I have opted to be honest to others during situations where I could have easily remained silent and avoided consequences. I have attempted to make amends with those who I have hurt over the past decade or more, and I always did so without needing to be pressured into it with threats of social excommunication. There are some I

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[anonymous]

Dave it was more than one person. You were actively grooming young girls throughout the vegan scene in New York. Multiple women have come forward within the Vegan community with stories of your behavior towards women. Ironically for all of this anti-cancel culture business, you would make long posts cancelling these girls when they would spurn your advances or tell you you were making them uncomfortable. In a very similar manner to what you did to your last partner. The irony again is that you hate cancel culture but sure love writing long diatribes about how bad your partner was or how bad their new partner is. You gave the same treatment to anyone who privately asked you for accountability or ran afoul of you in basically anyway. All the while from your defense of pedophilia to the numerous womyn who expressed to others that they didn't feel comfortable using a community space with you your sexual and gender violence has continued unabated and without accountability.

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[zeroenthusiasm]

If it was in fact more than one person, I certainly never saw anything or heard about it, so I can’t speak on it. I’ve gone out of my way to reach out directly to the people I’ve been intimate with over the years, and of all the things I’ve ever been accused of, sexual violence of any kind has never been something brought up to me outside of Kara’s accusations in 2014 and again in 2019. I can’t be accountable for things never communicated to me, and I can’t speak to things I’m unaware of. If there are “multiple women”, then their stories have somehow never gotten to me and I have never heard about them from anyone else, let alone from the accusers themselves. I take these things very seriously and go to great lengths to ensure open lines of communication with the people in my life, so I’m feeling pretty skeptical about what you’re saying and about anyone you could be referring to

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[zeroenthusiasm]

Who has privately asked me for accountability? With the exception of the first messages about not practicing good enough consent from Kara back in 2014, there has only ever been one other person to reach out to me about sexual matters, and I was accountable to that person to the point they even offered me forgiveness. Otherwise, it’s always been me who has sought people out so I could extend an apology and try to make amends, for things I myself realized were wrong and hurtful. One of the first things I did, for example, after hearing that the space here where I did most of my events/programs had been sent multiple emails about me, was directly message every woman I knew personally from the space. All but one of them responded, and I was reassured by the rest that they’d never felt uncomfortable around me. One of them even said they’d never heard from anyone else that I had. I really am trying my best here, but I can only do so much when people are so unwilling or unable to communicate directly with me