okay, so let's imagine that there's a white male who is dissatisfied and would like to participate in a change-oriented political movement.
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but no i'm sure you can't possibly have fucked up ever and online radicalization into the alt-right is entirely the fault of 4chan existing
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/u/ was a smokescreen I mean not that I know what that is.
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Though I will say that a white person who really wants to commit to change really could do with realizing PoC have a reason to>
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repeatedly angrily grumble "fucking white people" even if honestly, its not like that's very fun. It's just sadly reasonable.
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sure, there are hella reasons, and i personally am willing to suck up that grumbling all day long.
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turns out though alienating everyone except the truly committed to change is maybe how you get November 8th, 2016
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And 8 years of the same administration (because lets be fair, nothing would change) ignoring state problems entirely.
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Michigan alone is a clusterfuck that should stain everyone currently in Washington's record forever.
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I've done labor organizing & faith-based progressive community organizing. No one was anti-white or anti-male or anti-straight.
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afaict that culture exists in Teh Online as the jacobin/dirtbag left which is a punching bag for progressive careerists
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Hm...so the only option is to interact with people IRL? That doesn't seem insurmountable, people did OK in the 20th Century...
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tbqf this is where we live now and if IRL organizing is going to roll back online radicalization i'd like to know when
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It'll be a slog, but this is a start: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/opinion/sunday/why-i-left-white-nationalism.html …
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