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Appeasing the Gods of Posting - The Bellows

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Perhaps the strangest artifact of the present I’ve seen is a viral Instagram screed titled Why The Refusal To Post Online Is Often Inherently Racist. There’s no point identifying the author; it might as well have been written by the platform itself. Silence is no longer the foundation of creativity. Digital systems can’t compute an absence; if you refuse to speak, you’re complicit. Post more, feed us more, empty yourself into the internet—or you’re a racist. My old university in Yorkshire has made an Instagram post in support of Black Lives Matter. So has the supermarket down the road. So has my bank (many of the comments were from black people wondering whether this commitment to racial equality might mean that some of their loan applications might actually be approved). For a sector of activists, these posts are absolutely mandatory. The Los Angeles Times reports, with gushing praise, on a woman circulating a list of theatres—as in, the buildings where they do plays, with lights, cur

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