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I want all controversial views to be deplatformed, because I don't see any other way that people will care enough about centralization to actually change.


I want all controversial views to be deplatformed

That's a pretty controversial view. Expect to be deplatformed, citizen.


Accelerationism doesn’t work, and never has.


I beg to differ. Without this pandemic and current US president the odds of us seeing the BLM movement would be nil considering the consistently slow burn that we've had over the past decades.

Now that the swing has been so great in one direction more people will vote and more people will care. I don't like it but that's how it's working. People who are tired and apathetic lack the impetus to enact meaningful change.


It goes both ways. There are just as many people who consider BLM to be an anarcho-marxist movement who hate white people. This is why accelerationism is bad, because it can radicalise literally everyone.


Not according to every statistic I have seen.

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/06/12/amid-protests-maj...


I didn't say I was going to help it along; I do see the companies trending in that direction already and I would prefer that if they are going to go in that direction anyways they do it quickly enough for people to take notice.

Also, I think I would point out passive resistance movements as an example for something like accelerationism working; it takes subtle mostly private acts of injustice and provokes those people to make unsubtle public acts.


Thank you for sharing. I didn't know this term even existed.

for others like me:

> In political and social theory, accelerationism is the idea that capitalism, or particular processes that historically characterised capitalism, should be accelerated instead of overcome in order to generate radical social change. "Accelerationism" may also refer more broadly, and usually pejoratively, to support for the intensification of capitalism in the belief that this will hasten its self-destructive tendencies and ultimately lead to its collapse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism




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