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Admittedly anecdotal, but this woman was deradicalized thanks to online dialogue: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/unfollow-deradicalization-twitter https://

• sudosteph 7y ago
  The problem here is that the popular perception of which ideologies are considered "radical" is swiftly expanding. The Westboro Baptist Church has been held up as an example of the "radical" Christian right for over 10 years. They know that they are reviled and play it up to keep getting attention. Meanwhile, if you read the stuff that Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal wrote (both are mentioned in this article) - it's clear that they both thought they were not taking positions that are out of the mainstream liberal view of acceptability. And if you talk to people who would not consider themselves "woke" they would find their writings to be very tame as well. This is why this situation is so interesting - these so-called "radicals" didn't begin to consider themselves different until they were suddenly isolated for expressing things that didn't seem very radical at all.