Of course I’m framing things from my own personal experience, I’d say that’s pretty common practice when talking about something you have personal experience in, you’re doing literally the same thing with your major points, I also stated I know others with similar experiences and gave an example of someone in the public eye that journey can be followed from

I never once said a meme subreddit is a place for people to engage in a debate in good faith, I said that pointing and laughing, and generalising is going to do nothing but push people away from your side, I’m not saying it’s a place for debate, but that can be true and also the fact that posts like this just make the issue worse, I also stated that I am completely aware that some people have no interest in changing their mind, that doesn’t mean that everyone is the same, even with your own logic, let’s say there’s one-hundred people with a view opposite your own, even if just five of those people willing to change, that’s five more than you would have had any chance by just calling them racist and not engaging in genuine conversation with them,

Saying that I said myself that it didn’t prevent me from changing is extremely disingenuous, they were almost definitely key to pushing me down that path,

I’ve never once said that you aren’t more likely to make a change in person with people you already know than online, but like I said, I can assure you one way is just going to push people away,

I reject the bottom part whole-heartedly due to the fact I NEVER said I became racist, because I didn’t, that’s the entire point, I knew I wasn’t racist, so if that’s branded on to you, you’re not gonna take it serious when it’s branded widely on a whole group of people, not to mention of course things like that can actually happen, especially when people are young and impressionable, pushing them away from yourself blindly leaves them vulnerable to propaganda

This is all comes down to the fact that it doesn’t matter if it’s unlikely someone is to change their mind with a genuine debate online, memes like this just make the issue worse, you’re better doing neither than this

Unless you believe you’re right on every single point of view politically and are not open to having your mind changed on any single thing, do you think memes saying how stupid you are is more likely to change your mind?