What I see all too often is that people for whom there is the slightest suspicion they do not conform to the set norms and values in a particular in-group, they are immediately ostracised by cancel culture, blocked out. This inability to accept that there are shades of grey, and making an effort to pull back stray souls into the light, is a sure way of seeing them slide further away, eventually into fascism.

🤔 "trying to disengage others" is what more people should try.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

As a hate-filled kid, I turned to far-right ideology. Now I help others avoid that path

In Sydney’s suburbs, I fell in with other traumatised loners – and we found scapegoats for our rage. A trip into the city changed everything, says Matthew Quinn of Exit Australia

^{Georgia Wilkins (The Guardian)}