These people don't really have the self awareness to game the system. If they did they'd grift like Ben Shapiro or Gavin McInnes. People who go down this rabbit hole actually believe the things they're saying. So when they say they don't think they're racist, they don't actually think they were racist. They were just liberal or centrist and didn't think about race all that much. That being said, liberal politics is built on racism. So when you start to peel off the surface layers the ugly parts start to show. He's not trying to garner sympathy so much as get others on board with his ideology. It's in the same vein as the "you're all deluded sheeple" spouted off by reactionary atheist bros in the early 2010s. He thinks he took the red pill and other people should too in order to protect their self interest against the "hordes".
These people don't really have the self awareness to game the system. If they did they'd grift like Ben Shapiro or Gavin McInnes. People who go down this rabbit hole actually believe the things they're saying. So when they say they don't think they're racist, they don't actually think they were racist. They were just liberal or centrist and didn't think about race all that much. That being said, liberal politics is built on racism. So when you start to peel off the surface layers the ugly parts start to show. He's not trying to garner sympathy so much as get others on board with his ideology. It's in the same vein as the "you're all deluded sheeple" spouted off by reactionary atheist bros in the early 2010s. He thinks he took the red pill and other people should too in order to protect their self interest against the "hordes".