The comment that broke me out of my reactionary idiocy:

After taking the time to calm down from a PTSD flashback. I will try to explain this calmly.

The argument is that the legal and professional structures around healthcare are in direct service to capitalism. You said yourself, you have to violate the law to provide healthcare. That’s proving the point every one of use in that thread is making.

Why I’m angry with you, personally, your actual person: You didn’t talk to us, you disengaged from the only person you made any motion to listen to in the thread and then came here to subtweet to people who aren’t of the marginalized communities in question. This is bad form, at best.

My argument about the medical establishment:

I was strapped to a table. I was tortured. It was Legal. A teacher put me there and a doctor did it.

I was a queer child and that was my crime.

For the love of god. Listen to us, don’t just get offended we don’t respect your profession because you, personally, may do truly good work. You and 1000 other people aren’t enough. The system must be abolished and replaced with something humane.

I am sure most of you saw the ACAB post, if not here is the link: https://hexbear.net/post/4475400

I reacted personally and negatively to this thread. I did not see the criticism of the medical and educational establishment through the eyes of those who are forced to endure it, but rather as a perpetrator. As I say in the thread, I am committed to uplifting and providing care to those who are trapped and abused in this system. I took criticism of the system as criticism of myself. I was too close to the issue from my side, rather than standing in solidarity with my oppressed comrades.

I am sorry. As someone who purports to be working in your favor, I fell into the classic patriarchal and imperialist mindset. This is something I thought I had overcome, and thus could never be wrong.

I would also like to personally apologize to the comrade that I disengaged from then immediately subtweeted on a comm in which I am a mod. That was inappropriate and a clear abuse of my position. As someone as mod on multiple comms, I should not have let an interaction from one comm spill over into another, especially with hostile intent in the context in which I did.