Contamination requires countervailing force to make believers recognize that their ideological goals won't be achieved in practice, not to convince them ideologically that their ideas are wrong, which is why rational arguments with neo-Nazis and extremists don't work but showing them their ideas cannot be translated into practice does

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Beatrice de Graaf

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But what you need to understand with contamination, it needs counter force, countervailing force to really make people see not their not that their ideas are flawed, but that it won't work.

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A Quest For The Third Rome: Understanding Putin’s Apocalyptical Radicalization | Hoover InstitutionHoover Institution
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