It's our job to exercise patience, and navigate their brainworms with tact and understanding. Sure I've had some luck being assertive and bullying my best friend into rejecting the capitalist propaganda we were raised on, but that takes a certain amount of trust and ability to present oneself as an authority on a subject.

With folks I don't know so well I focus on the latter first, teaching people cool history facts about stuff less likely to trigger thought terminating cliches. I talk about the lesser known atrocities of the US or the more radical aspects of labor history and civil rights movements.

Once I get people asking me for my opinion on a subject only then do I start trying to unravel the more ingrained stuff.

I almost got cancelled on twitter just for saying that white people need to be the ones to deprogram our racist friends and relatives if we can...

People just jump to "oh so you want to team up with the boogaloos". Like no motherfucker do you read? There's a lot of idealists that want to ignore the fact that as conditions worsen even if more people are becoming leftists even more people are being targeted and successfully radicalized by fascists, opportunists, and other reactionaries.

This is part of my inspiration for the writing project I've been mentioning. I want to try to tackle the whole history of fascist radicalization , on why and how their ideas are spread (specifically the roots of decentralized online recruitment), and what we need to do on the left to combat it.