I’m glad they’re starting to give it a shot instead of just talking about it. They’re all in on accelerationism and thinking they’re way smarter than they are, so hopefully seeing their ideas fail will accelerate us through this “intellectual” fad.

In what way are those posts racist? Because he mentions race? Genuinely trying to understand because you sound like a snowflake right now

Not Niang 👎

But could it be dialectically necessary to spur change towards something better?

On the other hand the idea that violent protests are bad is a symbol of ideology perpetuated by both sides of the ruling class as it minimizes the threat to their reign, and is something we often accept subconsciously without challenging

I think Zizek’s take(s) here are interesting, on the one hand violence is suboptimal as thought and discourse are the only way to build an understanding necessary to push society forward and create better systems than we have now, but …

How so?

You say this like it’s the first time he’s followed this pattern