Description of Sam Erb’s Behaviors and Conduct
This document has been assembled by multiple organizations and individuals who have been victim to the continued behaviors and harassment of Sam Erbs. This document stands to address and bring to light their continued misogyny, white chauvinism and failure to be accountable to their behaviors. It is our collective opinion that Sam Erbs is not a safe or responsible person to organize with. We issue this document as a warning of their behaviors and after long abandoned and sorely lacking attempts to hold them accountable for their behaviors were not taken up by Sam.
Sam has a long running history of weaponizing their identities against others to downplay their own racist and misogynistic behaviors. The most frequent examples of harmful behavior, which they tend to use their identity as a disabled person to excuse, are their consistent and often violent literal, verbal, and electronic boundary violations they perpetrate towards others. These include, but are not limited to: physical violations of people’s personal space and bodily autonomy (particularly towards femmes, AFAB people, & POC) via non-consensual touch; rushing into someone’s close personal space; taking up large amounts of [physical] space in meetings in a way that involves repeatedly pushing the boundaries of others around them; shouting at people in private and in public during simple interpersonal or political discussions; throwing or banging objects around them in a violent way for point emphasis during political arguments in closed spaces; refusing to disengage from conversations or confrontations, even for the safety of others; actively soliciting confrontation in delicate or unsafe situations in which they are by no means the most vulnerable individual; harassing and verbally threatening strangers on other people’s social media posts; using their alts to harass and find information about people who have unfriended or blocked a primary account of theirs.
Sam leverages their identities to harass and attempt to manipulate others into doing what they want. When Sam fails at weaponizing identity politics ate people they often move into sucking up to them and when this fails they move on to trying to discredit them. This manipulative behavior is most often seen as them harassing people to defriend people they have debated with. This behavior has mostly been in the form of open badjacketing of others as SWERFs for not fully embracing or being critical, or rather, simply not instantly adopting of Sam’s positions on sex work, and as TERFs for criticizing their misogyny (as if being a nonbinary trans person somehow precludes someone from acting misogynistic).
In at least one instance, Sam weaponized their identities against a boyfriend. Sam frequently misgendered him and fetishized his body in a way which was highly non-consensual and transphobic. Sam would dismiss these discussions by centering their own trans identity as sufficient excuse/justification for their misgendering, cissexist invalidation, fetishization and refusal to use correct terms for their boyfriend’s body parts. Sam harassed their boyfriend into isolating himself from former friends based on said friends’ supposed political unacceptability, and manipulated him into spending nearly all his time with Sam. After this boyfriend finally separated himself from Sam, they used their alts to stalk and harass him, including gaslighting his experiences by accusing him of being “petty” for becoming hostile in reaction to Sam’s abuse.
Sam’s misogynist behavior has also manifested in them talked about bringing “hot girls” into their politics in order to date/sleep with them; in other words, they explicitly plan on isolating prospective partners from their pre-existing social circles in order to ensure their access to these people emotionally and sexually. Sam has had prolonged conversations resenting that at least one of their girlfriends wanted to leave them, and detailed how they use their identities to guilt their partners and make them afraid to leave them. Sam frequently externalizes the repercussions of their actions on women by framing women as vindictive, and abusively badjacketing them. They also have applied this behavior to women who disagree with them publicly. Sam has a pattern of calling these women “queens” or “god queens” when discussing them with others.
In regards to racism, Sam has a habit of speaking over black people on issues related specifically to the black community. What this means is that they will assume lines on issues within the black community and then proceed to argue those lines with black people. This is harmful because these are in-community issues. What this means is that while debate on how best to resist oppression can exist and is encouraged within the community it impacts, people from outside of the community who benefit from or perpetuate this oppression do not have the right to hold lines on these issues. This behavior extends to other people of color as well. Sam has a pattern of behavior where they assume a position of intellectual superiority and talk down to and harass people of color. These behaviors are indicative of an ongoing problem of egoistic white chauvinism for which Sam has not been accountable. On another note Sam frequently engages in extreme “ironic” anti-semitism. At one point they started a Facebook page dedicated to showcasing (or rather posting and sharing) violently anti-semitic and racist memes, “for them to be mocked.” This page was closed but it’s opening in light of Sam’s other behaviors is deeply troubling.
Related to this some people have recorded deeply troubling quotes Sam has shared with them such as:
“I can’t wait for the Nazis to put the jews back into camps so I can complain about white people with POC” and will often say that they want jews (ashkenazim) to return to not being “considered white”.
“John Wilkes Booth was a hero.”
“this kinda hot girl wants to get together and talk politics but she is in such a shit org lol.” ”Ima get her to quit then ima date her”
As it has been briefly detailed, Sam has a longstanding pattern of creating alt Facebook accounts to add people on Facebook who have blocked and unfriended them. When confronted, they will refuse to identify themselves and attempt to maintain anonymity by directing people to contact people who have not agreed to vouch or vet them to vet them. We have compiled some information to assist folks in recognizing their alts below. This behavior constitutes both stalking and harassment and is not acceptable.
Sam has been approached and criticized about many of these behaviors before by many people and members of our many organizations which they have found themselves isolated and removed from. None of the groups who participated in constructing this document have ever known Sam to actually change their behavior, or even engage in documentable self-criticism. They have displayed a consistent pattern of leaving groups in response to criticism, and then attaching themselves to new organizations without disclosing their history of abusive behavior. Sam also will brush off accountability by constantly, performatively talking about how self-critical they try to be, and by asking people to help them be self-critical, but then never actually following through. Especially in one-on-one or other private contexts, they tend to feign unity with criticisms made of them, but simultaneously center themself and their emotions in order to evade immediate consequences, and to make their critics appear aggressive and unsympathetic. This behavior is a textbook racist, misogynist response to criticism. We wish it to be clear that their continued failure and refusal to self criticize and be responsible for their behaviors has lead to this public outing.
There is no identity or reason that one can cite as an excuse for, or as the “cause” of:
Consistently and aggressively violating the boundaries of others in ways that specifically perpetuate common, pervasive forms of oppressive violence.
Entitlement, ego, arrogance, and a disregard for the fundamental agency and value of others.
Aggressive racism and white chauvinist harassment of people of color.
Violent misogyny and transmisogyny.
Stalking and harassment and other pervasive boundary violations of people attempting to distance themselves from them.
Objective wrecking and fabricated slander of organizations.
We hope that our communities both online and and in person take these charges seriously and call on Sam to discontinue their attempts to push their way into organizations until such time that they have thoroughly self-criticized and can demonstrate proof that they have rectified their behaviors. Over the past few years, the decision to keep criticisms and accounts of Sam’s transgressions confidential, or within our respective groups, has allowed them to continue their behavior unchecked within other organizations, and indirectly resulted in them having the opportunity to harm more people. Therefore, regardless of whether or not they are likely to ever introspect or change, we feel it is necessary to make information about their actions in the past publicly accessible in order to help ensure the safety of our communities.
IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS TO LOOK FOR IN NEW PROFILES:
Sam makes a lot of alts and will continue to do so in order to inhabit leftist spaces online. There are some commonalities that may be helpful in identifying future alts:
Sam is vocal and fervent about Marxist-Leninist-Maoism: their socks are pretty consistent about this as well. For example, this quote is on at least two of their known alts: “If you aren’t MLM and I don’t know you I prob won’t accept a friend request”
Their sock accounts are also generally very consistent about trans rights and often advocate violence about this, e.g.: “Intro: peasant Stalinist proud Gonzalo cultist They/Them or a bullet to the face.”
Sam very consistently says “ya” instead of yes in conversations.
Frequent use of “ironic anti-semitism” and posting of reactionary memes “ironically” (especially as cover photos or as albums).
Performatively aggressive and hyperbolic displays of allyship (particularly to POC).
Weaponizing disability and gender in arguments online (and in person) in order to derail, antagonize, or evade accountability for their own actions.
Name trends: When making alt accounts Sam will repeatedly use the same few first or last names in various combinations, as well as using Yiddish names or stereo-typically Jewish/often ironically anti-semitic names (Such as Shlomo and Rothschild, referring to anti-semitic conspiracy theories).
Known Alts (Some may have been recently shut down):
Sam Erbs: https://www.facebook.com/samuel.erbs.1
Yasuke Benjamin (Also Yasuke Postblock Benjamin) may have been deleted.
Shlomo Wallach/ Shlomo Rothschild: https://www.facebook.com/shlomo.wallach.90
Yasuke Perzenlekh: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100014176814936
Micheal McAvison: has been reported and deleted. Was used by Sam solely for the purpose of creeping on profiles of people who had blocked Sam on other accounts: presumably Sam has continued this strategy with another profile that is currently unknown.
Shlomy Wallach https://www.facebook.com/shlomy.wallach?fref=jewel
Koppel Katzenellenbogen https://www.facebook.com/koppel.katzenellenbogen.3
JohnSmith Perzenlekh https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100014176814936&fref=ts
Important Considerations in Evaluating Possible Alt Accounts: A lot of this stuff is pretty vague and general–there are a lot of trans and nonbinary lefties on Facebook, and it would be very easy to accidentally harass someone who is not Sam, who is marginalized, angry about it, and real stoked about MLM-ism. The identifiers above are not, on their own, enough to justify trying to isolate someone/report their profile/get them kicked out of groups. If you come across a profile that strongly fits these indicators, but you don’t have any behavioral context, it is worth asking if others can provide more context for this person/profile’s behavior. At the same time, because Sam is a disabled trans person, it is essential to be careful when engaging in this process process, as mistaken callouts will likely hurt people who are already very vulnerable to social isolation.
If there is a profile that has a consistent pattern of harassing/attacking/badjacketing leftists, that particularly targets women and femmes of color (or in general demonstrates misogyny and white supremacy in their targets), and that fits the other profile characteristics listed above, it is reasonable to believe that profile may also be another Sam alt account. And regardless, that profile belongs to someone whose behavior isn’t okay.
Contact Information: If you would like to contribute or share information about being personally or organizationally targeted/harmed by Sam Erbs, or if you believe you have identified another of their alt accounts, you can email the authors of this post at [email protected]. We are committed to maintaining the privacy/anonymity of our individual sources, in light of Sam’s harassment, so we will not attempt to include any information you send us unless you explicitly indicate that you would like us to do so. We are happy to serve as both a channel for voicing harms done, and simply a resource/repository of information for those who have been harmed in the past.
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