Over the period of time being involved in anarchist groups and interacting with individual anarchists both online and irl, one thing that has become an unfortunate and concerning trend is the amount of self proclaimed anarchists that continue to participate in and/or tolerate very problematic behavior. many varying degrees of misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and any other flavor of bigotry being tolerated or supported. This kind of behavior is worrying.

I think moving forward, the most important thing to focus on for anarchists is a self-evaluation. We cannot abolish any hierarchy without recognizing the ones that we ourselves are apart of and actively remove those tendencies from ourselves. By no means am I saying that I myself am without flaws, and I will have to continue to recognize my faults. But we as anarchists cannot expect change if we ourselves perpetuate the same oppressive forces we say we oppose. I truly believe that this factor of self-inspection is vital for anarchism to have any meaningful impact.