Sort of a tangent, but climate change discussions are a prime example of just how insidious accelerationist rhetoric can be. Iâve lost count of how many times Iâve seen blackpill talking points come out of the mouths of oblivious liberals. Usually white. Overpopulation, austerity policies, conspiracies about crisis response. Even the wannabe Rambo ass apocalypse fantasies are, at their core, reactionary.
But something like âoverpopulation is the problemâ sounds right to someone who doesnât know how reactionary politics function. It seems like an obvious, indisputable fact when one doesnât learn how to untangle the deeper implications behind political statements. So a lot of (white) liberals are especially susceptible to the type of recruiting that cryptofascists prefer to employ.
My brother, who would be horrified to know the origins of his belief, thoroughly believes the overpopulation lie. Heâs a Terminally Online Zoomer opinionated white guy who is a perfect target for accelerationists: not at all likely to participate in their horrendous violence, but very likely to absorb the rhetoric that makes him feel paralyzed, apathetic, and misanthropic while they detonate the world around him.
If we care about stopping this tide of fascism, we are obligated to learn the ways in which theyâve camouflaged themselves. The term âdogwhistleâ gets bandied about a lot, and applied to things like the (((three parentheses))), which has quickly moved from dog whistle to open, unabashed antisemitism. The actual dog whistles, the ones we need to be aware of and ready to critique, often sound on the surface like normal conversations.
If, like the previous commenter, you feel horrified by the scope of the problem, the quickest way to start getting active is to get intimately familiar with their rhetoric, their codes, the underpinnings of their politics, and the machinery that makes fascism run.
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