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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by notahacker on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:47PM (#18765565)
The argument works better the other way. Do you believe the reason David Duke has 85k YouTube subscribers is because it's difficult to find any rational argument that the KKK is not an unalloyed good?

DD spending a lot of time being personally nice to Klansmen might swing a few of them back the other way, but I suspect making their recruitment harder in the first place might be the more scalable and less risky approach.

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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by scruple on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:53PM (#18765592)
Well, I personally believe that the reason David Duke has 85k YouTube subscribers is because any dumb shit in the world with an internet connection and a browser can press a button completely detached from any sort of consequence whatsoever.

I also think that Daryl Davis is one man on a mission. If others were perhaps similarly motivated maybe more progress could be made.

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