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  • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Let's get some things straight since there seems to be some confusion on the issue,

    re: liberals can't be radicalized.

    • Ideologically committed online liberals, like Twitter donuts and /r/neoliberal users: Near-impossible to radicalize, debate with them only for an audience if that, its not worth your energy.
    • Well meaning but misguided liberals who have been mislead into believing that the Democrats (or whatever the Democrat-equivalent in their country is) are good and that they want the best for people: Completely reachable, it may still be a struggle because ideology poisoning but just do things like normalize socialism for them by being openly socialist and reach them on a level they care about (like pointing out the shitty things Kamala did to trans prisoners, for example, this worked for me with a lib recently).
    • 3/4 of THIS VERY COMMUNITY are ex-liberals. Saying that liberals can't be radicalized is demonstrably ridiculous. Particularly if you yourself are an ex-liberal, don't let hatred for your past self cloud your judgement.
    • Believing that the ideologically committed liberals outnumber the well meaning but misguided liberals is born of very online poisoning. You've spent too much time arguing in /r/politics or whatever. Most liberals fall into the later category.

    [should i have made this an entire post?]

    • BillyMays [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If you were to say most workers can’t be radicalized you would realize how dumb it sounds.

    • FarSeerFirelord [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yep, I used to belong to the group of people in your 2nd point. Even back then I thought neolibs sounded like cartoon villains.