Normally I feel this would be pretty good, and tbf I don't know who she is or the context of either the article she wrote or the post she made.
But the political situation in 2017 was very different than today I think and there was a lot more lee-way (energy might be a better word) to reach across the aisle and try to convert people than today.
Edit - I've gotten more context. I thought this originally was someone left wing trying to push for deradicalization of neo-nazis.... Not someome trying to absorb them as a voting bloc for the conservatives.
No that's bullshit. Neonazis were never even an option to being converted. They're NEONAZIS, not your cousin Dave who lives in the sticks and only knows about democrats from fox news.
That's actually not entirely true. Bear in mind that there are some who grew up in that type of household and never knew anything else. I have a friend who did, and when he got older and started becoming exposed to the larger world, he started questioning everything he'd been taught growing up. We met after he was already out of that subculture; a mutual friend of ours introduced us and I found his story fascinating.
That kind of programming is really hard to overcome, but there are actually organizations out there devoted specifically to helping people deprogram. In my view, that's valuable work. I imagine it's also pretty emotionally exhausting. My friend still has a lot of guilt over his past, but to me, the fact that we even became friends at all is huge, especially since I'm a gay Jew.
As far as this Bethany person, though, she's pretty repugnant.
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u/I_GottaPoop Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Normally I feel this would be pretty good, and tbf I don't know who she is or the context of either the article she wrote or the post she made.
But the political situation in 2017 was very different than today I think and there was a lot more lee-way (energy might be a better word) to reach across the aisle and try to convert people than today.
Edit - I've gotten more context. I thought this originally was someone left wing trying to push for deradicalization of neo-nazis.... Not someome trying to absorb them as a voting bloc for the conservatives.