That's kind of accelerationist, right? Make things worse in the short term to force a change so things get resolved in the medium term and better in the long term. This is not how stupid extremists see accelerationism. They leave out the medium term part.
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The best way you can see this is to look at the Hard Righties, where the idea pops up in cycles (even before "accelerationism" was common parlance on the Hard Right). Lots of Hard Righties -- Atomwaffen today; Louis Beam and Bob Mathews 35 years ago -- think chaos yields result.
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For example, Bob Mathews fantasized about stuff thusly: PROBLEM: white people aren't flocking to white nationalism SOLUTION: destroy infrastructure in the cities BECAUSE: black people will riot MEANING: white people will radicalize RESULT: white nationalist recruiting boom
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Bob Mathews's obsession with this makes more sense when you realize that Hard Righties are pig-ignorant of history. (Hard Righties will be offended by this because they think they have a FANTASTIC sense of history & know it very well. Yeah: they only know the parts they like.)
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(I can't get too up on my high horse, because in my experience mainstream Righties have a very similar problem. If you read socialist stuff you'll see serious analysis of socialist movement successes and failures. Not so much on the Right, mainstream or radical.)
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What I eventually realized was that this faith in black rioting being the key to radicalizing whites was that the idea really came up among guys of a particular generation -- white nationalist dudes who had grown up at a time when there were a truckload of race riots.
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It wasn't history they were looking at. It was personal experience. "What radicalized me will SURELY work for everyone else!" ...ignoring the clear fact that, you know it hadn't
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But this idea has stuck around, and keeps remanifesting, and you see the accelerationist version in the NZ perp's manifesto. He actually predicted the resultant NZ gun ban, and wanted it, on the theory that it would radicalize NZ gun owners and convert them to white nationalism.
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The Poway and El Paso perps read the NZ perp's manifesto and, buying into accelerationism, agreed with the notion that murder to create chaos was the way for white nationalists to break through to "white people will buy what we're selling!"
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(It doesn't seem to occur to them that the general white public might conclude that "yes in fact these guys are insanely dangerous," and respond accordingly.)
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I'm not sure I'd read too much ideological coherency into these manifestoes. The El Paso guy cites the Lorax, for crying out loud.
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Hard Rightyism is often more about attitude than ideology.
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