It's a tricky prospect, trying to balance hate speech and distinguishing it from someone simply expressing bad thoughts.
I guess I'm someone who came with a lot of poor, preconceived notions, and it took some time, patience, and radicalizing to arrive where I am today.
I've had some pretty awful takes over the years and said insensitive things, but it's other comrades who turned me on to better ideas.
It took me between 2011-2016 to open myself up to socialist theory after SRS banned my dumb libertarian ass. But I can guarantee you that having to debate the 400,000th Libertarian on reddit to try and change their mind would not have been effective. I was dumb enough to say “national socialists were socialists” as far back as 2012-2015; that conversation would have literally led nowhere.
I truly mean it, the people interest in theory will lurk or go off and read stuff on their own and that’s fine. We do not have a way to convert people to our side. It has to be their own conditions that helps them see the “light”.
Well that's not what I was talking about. I wasn't a libertarian but already sick of the democrats about a year after getting into politics after my 18th birthday, a progressive democrat. And still had people jumping down my throat. I mean hell it's not some crazy thing to say socialists forums are often shitholes, look at how many people get banned from so many of the reddit ones before the right wingers won and banned em all.