Shawn is a good kid who did more to get kids out of the White Nationalist pipeline than any of your “activism” because he saw how it worked as a cult from the inside & has turned his life around since then. Don’t you fucking dare go after Shawn. https://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1380853016467795973

Doesn’t seem to make the point that all these “white nationalists” invited on the sweat absolutely embarrassed themselves & were exposed as dumb fucking edgelords & grifters. Shawn is a good christian boy who grew up in the rust belt & desperately wanted to help his people.

Shawn, like some others involved in IE, were originally Obama supporting Occupy Wall Street supporting working class kids who made 2007 era youtube videos about how to “mosh” at an A Day to Remember concert. This constant harassment is what DRIVES extremism.

Is there any point at which involvement with a cult— & then leaving it & deprogramming other people who got sucked into the cult— can be forgiven? Is there any point at which you’ll just let the fucking kid live his fucking life?

I knew Shawn for years, even when he was still “involved” in this shit— & watching him grow out of it to become a respectable working class dude who would sacrifice himself for the good of others— was one of the only points of optimism “internet politics” ever provided.

I will go to bat for Shawn any fucking day of the week. He is the same sort of kid I grew up with in the Rust Belt. Leave him the fuck alone.

. @letsgomathias how about you do some fucking research on people who actually have power in this fucking plane of hell instead of harassing Shawn, a random kid in the army, for shit he did five years ago & has far more than “atoned” for

YOU MAKE THE NAZIS

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT

YOU WILL KEEP RUINING HIS LIFE

UNTIL THE ONLY PLACE LEFT

IS THE SAME CULT YOU OSTENSIBLY OPPOSE

HOW DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THIS?

WHAT MORE COULD THE KID FUCKING DO TO PUT THAT SHIT BEHIND HIM!