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One of the things you have to learn if you get real heavy into antifascist work is how to deradicalize people and part of that process involves setting clear objectives and benchmarks to measure that person’s growth. That means... 1/ https://twitter.com/shonfaye/status/1278604578821472256
That means that we have to be able to prioritize those opportunities for growth over the need to cancel, dunk on, or shun for past wrongs.
It also doesn’t mean that we let those people off the hook for those past wrongs.
It also doesn’t mean that we let those people off the hook for those past wrongs.
I’m friends #onhere with people who were Stormfront mods and UTR attendees. I have held them accountable to do the work to learn and grow, and in that process had to make myself vulnerable for them to do that.
I care less if you were shouting “fuck you faggots” in 2017 if you have made the effort to acknowledge those wrongs, apologize, work to educate, work to undo those networks of hate, and move the needle forward.
What you’re doing *right now* means more than what you’ve done.
