I agree with some parts of this but disagree with a bunch of other parts still.

I've never met a victim, and I've met many, who wants their shit blasted all over the world like this. Everyone I've met wouldn't consider it sweeping it under the rug to keep the victim's privacy. I disagree with all the parts about how they should've told everyone Marissa's private story. It's also clear to me that despite what everyone here is saying, Eugene is not a danger after the initial event because it never happened again. Everyone says he's X because he did something once while drunk that he didn't even remember. I'm not defending him his actions, he needed to be punished, I'm just saying sometimes one event doesn't define a whole person. It seems restorative justice worked in this case. And I see people saying restorative justice doesn't apply here for some reason, but nobody is saying why. I work in prison abolition and am trying to build communism in a conservative area, though so maybe I have a different view on people's abilities to change.

I do agree that they handled parts wrongly the first time, but to me it's because they didn't know what they were doing. It doesn't define Ben as some sort of guy trying to cover things up, but as someone over their head who was trying to figure out what to do. He should probably at the very least step down for a bit to get some heat off the party. And the party should have probably been alerted that Eugene is being suspended for an inappropriate sexual assault event at a company party, but only if Marissa wanted that. Everyone, I imagine even Marissa, was probably worried about the state and their enemies taking advantage of that to destroy the party. It's a tough one on what to keep in and what to blast because every weakness will be taken advantage of and every party internal communication will leak. They chose wrong in this case, but I empathize with the difficulty of trying to build socialism in the imperial core.

It's clear that they made the NDC to account for this in the future, but the fact that they didn't have it setup before this doesn't mean the party is unfixable or the whole thing is a wash. It's a part of the improvements every org will have to go through as it grows. From what I heard, their current processes are much better, but I'm sure it varies from branch to branch. It probably does need to be kept separate from the CC, but I think it already is completely independent and has a higher authority than it.

And does hiring professionals from the bourgeois society full of sexual harassment and sexual assault a good idea? Idk if trusting the processes or current companies and such is a great idea. It's not like they all do amazing on these kinds of things, either, but the writer of this acts like the PSL needs to be copying them.

Also, they attest the faction doesn't exist because it's people leaving who are then forming a new org, but that's a lie. It formed while they were members of the PSL as an attempt to split the party, attempted to recruit people in the PSL, pretended to agree with their politics while secretly forming their own faction, and are continuing to do so.