“The alt-right are people who are just like us, so...”
WRONG: “...we should sympathize with them and try to understand their viewpoints.”
RIGHT: “...we should see their transformation into hateful monsters as all the more horrifying, and guard against that transformation in ourselves.”
@noelle I find the argument of sympathizing, and debating these people very flawed as well.
People saying this always assume they will be able, somehow, to convince them to not being Nazis anymore. Why does it never occur to them that Nazis may be affecting their way of thinking too in the process, and win more people as well?
@noelle While our safety is secure, we should look for ways to communicate that abandoning their ideology is worthwhile, while ensuring that we prepare ourselves for double agents. We must show people a path out, so as to ensure that any people condemned forever to their ranks are there purely by their own refusal to get well.
At least, that's my fantasy. I've never succeeded in it yet.
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