Anti-anarchists sometimes like to accuse “anarchists” of having terrible opinions, and then if you’re like “I’m an anarchist and that’s not true” they say “Oh, I mean internet anarchists.”

I’ve seen some of you mirroring this rhetoric and complaining about “internet anarchists.” This is playing into anti-anarchist rhetoric that discredits anarchism and divides the movement. You don’t have to prove you’re one of the good ones.

We used to call those people “baby anarchists.” They weren’t pretenders who we had to distance ourselves from, they were uneducated people who needed some pointers on things like cooption, anti-imperialism, lesser evilism and the non-profit industrial complex.

Don’t distance yourself from internet anarchists, educate baby anarchists.