I definitely agree that his views should be critiqued, I just think that we should do so while having productive conversations with said people so that they can become allies

In the above convo, ZephyrFrost could have had an interesting conversation with Darkmatter on the nature of the one-state solution that he tacitly proposes. Instead, Zephyr spends the entire time calling him a ‘genocide denier’ unless he says exactly what Zephyr wants, wrecking the convo and making all of us look bad.

While the positions we take must be principled, the conversations we have with others should be non-confrontational and understanding, so that we can turn them into allies and not enemies. After all, deprogramming capitalist propaganda is a delicate operation.

Darkmatter plays an important role in deconverting fascist evangelical Christians and making them ever even consider leftism, so it’s not like he’s an enemy.

Of course, if someone really wants to “kill all brown people”, there’s no point in having a conversation with fascists.