Reddit reviews My Life After Hate

I applaud you actually deciding to respond with substance rather than attacks. Here is my response on a point-by-point basis:

1. While I admit that I should have furthered clarified my original statement, I would suggest the my second, much longer comment adequately clarified my argument and "defined" the term I was using. Thus, while I admit my initial argument was lacking substance, I don't believe you can say the same about my argument as a whole.
   
   
2. I appreciate this admission and dose of actual common sense and morality. Your opinion is much more nuanced and respectful than the comment by u/mikeyjett that expressed the sentiment that "all Nazis must fucking die." Saying any group of people should be killed for nothing more than who they are is inherently and obviously immoral and bordering on genocidal. I find it ironic that the same people who rightfully despise Nazis will turn around and advocate for policy prescriptions that resemble literal Nazi policy during the 1930s and 1940s.
   
   
3. I agree that the argument is lacking in sufficient evidence, and thus I will now amend it to include more evidence that supports my point. The argument I made is that conversation can convince people, even very radically-opinionated people, to change their views. More evidence to support this claim is listed below:
   
   https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-kkk-member-denounces-hate-groups-one-year-after-rallying-n899326
   
   "In the past 12 months, his beliefs and path have been radically changed by the people he has met."
   
   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/humankind/2019/07/26/how-former-kkk-member-and-muslim-refugee-became-friends/1807639001/
   
   It was clear to his wife Melissa that Buckley wasn't going to change on his own. She reached out to Arno Michaelis, a man who had been in Buckley's shoes. Michaelis was once a neo-Nazi skinhead. He had a drastic change in mind and heart in the early 2000's. Now Michaelis spreads messages of inclusion and forgiveness and helps other people get out of hate groups. He flew from Wisconsin to Lafayette, Ga. to help Buckley leave behind the hateful life he was leading.
   
   https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/80y3va/im_an_ex_white_supremacist_and_klansman_ama/
   
   Q: "What changed your mind and why did you quit?"
   
   A: "Life has a way of kicking your ass when you make bad or stupid decisions. I think after a few of these ass kickings you start looking at yourself critically. This happened to me, and once I accepted that I wasn't right about a few things from there my whole belief system kind of unraveled. At this same time, I met some black individuals who unwittingly played a part in the saga."
   
   
4. Regarding "ok libtard," its mainly a joke, but yes I shouldn't have posted that. Sometimes I get caught up in the memeing. Regarding the second comment, what I meant is that I have some conservatives beliefs. I also have some, and probably more, liberal beliefs. Hence me identifying as a centrist, and actually a left leaning one. My position on the political compass (see below) and my support of Andrew Yang and Pete Buttigieg, both moderate liberals, support this.
   
   On the political compass I lie in the liberal lower left hand quadrant, even if I am close to the libertarian quadrant.
   
   https://www.politicalcompass.org/crowdchart?name=monredmen&ec=-1.5&soc=-5
   
   My online history has been suspect in regards to my rhetoric in the past. You have me there. But in my defense, I have a long history of having respectful and rational conversations with a wide variety of people and organizations, including some that hold views I am staunchly opposed to. In the past few years I have participated in debates and discussion with my very leftist AP Comp and APUSH classes at my high school, debated the UCSB College Republicans on Universal Basic Income and a few other issues, among other things. I intend to attend UCSB Campus Democrats meetings once I'm back in Santa Barbara and will also be talking with the co-chairs of the Multi-Cultural Center on some of the disagreements I have with them.