Why I Left White Nationalism

<i>Through many talks with devoted and diverse people there — people who chose to invite me into their dorms and conversations rather than ostracize me — I began to realize the damage I had done.</i><p>I suppose this is the key. No group will be convinced by being publicly ostracised or relentlessly attacked; that&#x27;s going to do nothing but further entrench division. But it&#x27;s difficult to figure out steps that one can take as an individual to help.

&gt; Through many talks with devoted and diverse people there — people who chose to invite me into their dorms and conversations rather than ostracize me — I began to realize the damage I had done.<p>&gt; That kind of persuasion happens in person-to-person interactions and it requires a lot of honest listening on both sides. For me, the conversations that led me to change my views started because I couldn’t understand why anyone would fear me. I thought I was only doing what was right and defending those I loved.<p>These two quotes kinda resonate with me. I&#x27;m no longer on a college campus and can only take an impression from afar. But it seems like these two scenarios are more and more infrequent. It seems like now you must show that you have not been &quot;tainted&quot; by listening to someone with &quot;reprehensible&quot; opinions. This article states that people who didn&#x27;t convulse at the mere thought of him, but sat down and talked to him are the reason why he drifted from his ideology. Now, it seems like you could be ostracized yourself for even visiting this person in their dorm room.

<p><pre><code> When the most powerful demographic in the United States came together to assert that making America great again meant asserting their supremacy, they were asserting my supremacy. </code></pre> I find this rhetoric troubling; I know many Trump supporters and none would explain their vote in terms of asserting &quot;supremacy&quot; for their demographic. Given the author&#x27;s background, I see how he could reach that conclusion, but his assertion stands in opposition to other parts of his article in which he states that engagement is the key to changing minds. I&#x27;m not too sure why he thinks that smearing the millions of voters who supported Trump as white supremacists is a positive step toward engaging them in civil discussion.

So, the author was in one group and subscribed to the majority opinion there, and then adopted another majority opinion of a new social circle?

&quot;For every woke dude, there are 10 burned out feminists.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know who said this, but it&#x27;s true for many things.<p>Ten or hundred people telling someone they&#x27;re wrong, isn&#x27;t enough to change what year long indoctrination has done.<p>Even if you think &quot;I talked to thousands of racists in my life and I just don&#x27;t want to waste my time to change their minds&quot; you should still do it, because it has an effect, just not for all of the thousand people you talked to.

<i>The reality is that half of the voters chose white supremacy, though saying that makes me a hypocrite.</i><p>Wut? People who voted for Obama voted for Trump! Seems like when people, like this guy, get emotional over election results, they throw all logic out of the window.

To you PEOPLE how constantly claim to be so &quot;diverse&quot;,why are you so intolerant with divergent opinions? We do respect your right to be stupid! When are you&#x27;ll leaving?