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CW: trauma, abuse

Will Beaman draws on personal experiences to reflect on how the problematic reduction of \u201cderadicalization\u201d to dialogues between fascists and anti-fascists resembles other forms of emotional and relational abuse. When the imperatives of \u201ccoalition-building\u201d require victims of right wing violence to double down on dialogues with hostile interlocutors, the supposedly public realm of ideas resembles an abusive household, in which leaving is not an option. After a cold open from Briahna Joy Gray\u2019s recent interview with Talia Lavin on the \u201cBad Faith\u201d podcast, Will suggests that distinctly non-carceral and non-\u201cpaid for\u201d modes of institutional mediation are necessary for deradicalization to be something more than the emotional blackmail of victims via toxic social norms.