On the 7th of january in 1919, the "Semana Trágica" began in Argentina when police attacked striking metalworkers in Buenos Aires, killing five, after workers set the police chief's car on fire. The city was quickly placed under martial law.
The "Semana Trágica" (Tragic Week in English, not to be confused with the Spanish Tragic Week) was the violent supression of a general workers' uprising, beginning with the attack on January 7th. In addition to the actions of the police and military, right-wing vigilantes launched pogroms against the city's Jews, many of whom were not involved, in order to suppress the rebellion.
The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal works, an English Argentine-owned plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. On January 7th, workers overturned and set fire to the car of the police chief Elpidio González. Militant workers also shot and killed the commander of the Army detachment protecting González. Following this, police attacked, killing five workers and wounding twenty more.
On the same day, maritime workers of the port of Buenos Aires voted in favor of a general strike for better hours and wages. After the police attack at Vasena, a waterfront strike began: all ship movements, and all loading and unloading, came to a halt.
Rioting soon spread throughout Buenos Aires, and workers battled with both state and right-wing paramilitary forces. Police utilized members of the far-right Argentine "Patriotic League", who targeted the city's working class Russian Jewish population, which they associated with the rebellion, beating and murdering many uninvolved civilians.
On the 11th, the city was placed under martial law, and the military restored control over the city over the next several days. Estimates of the death toll range from between 141 to over 700. The United States embassy reported that 1,500 people were killed in total, "mostly Russians and generally Jews"
La Semana Trágica - el historiador
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No one is good at relationships, we're all just winging it. Half the relationship columnists are divorced at least once.
Yeah but it sucks when i have constant anxiety that im accidentally doing abuse.
The fact that you're worried about not doing it is a good sign. It's obviously not a guarantee, but it's a good sign.
I wonder if "abuse anxiety" is a common feeling for abuse survivors
It is for me. My particular fear, having lived for a long time in a very passive aggressive culture that shuns confrontation, is that people won't tell me when they're upset or hurt, and their bad feelings will putrify until the damage is beyond repair. i'm terrified of people saying "yes" when they don't want to, people concealing their feelings or emotional wounds. It makes it hard to trust folks. : (
Thats actually happened to me. I basically accidentally sex pested someone due to autistic to autistic miscommunication. I accidentally signled to her that being told no would result in angry backlash, so she "humored me" when i flirted and sent her nsfw stuff, but her "humoring me" came off as enthusiastic consent because she went so far with it. This went on for six months before it came to a head. The worst part is i wasnt even doing it for my gratification. I was sending her stuff i knew she was into for her sake. The whole thing was a mess.
Didnt help the abuse anxiety when it literally happened.
Navigating this stuff is really hard, and some people need a very safe environment and encouragement to be able to say no. Not creating that environment because you don’t know that it’s necessary is not abusive. I think that the only way to prevent such situations is to learn to create a safe environment for your partner to say no. One aspect (which you’ve probably learned by now) is to not react negatively when they do say no. The fact that you’re now aware of it will make the chance of it happening again much smaller.
My solution thus far is always asking for explicit consent when I do anything remotely sexual, frequent check-ins, and lots of discussion. It's not perfect, but what else can a soul do?
Anecdotally I think so, but I have no clue whether that's just my observations.