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Starting with: I have found a great many of "those people" to be highly insecure, living in denial and fear that they themselves may be such a "loser" but are putting on the bully face for the world to misdirect people away from the fact that they themselves are very much the same as the people they are bullying.
True, but there's a line and once they've crosses it, they're the bullies.
Where exactly that line is and how to draw it is a matter for debate. Maybe there's another line where "This person is a bully, but still redeemable if he demonstrates willingness to change."
But anyone who's unapologetic and unwilling to change obviously needs to be shunned at the very least, and see consequences for the harms he's caused.
That still doesn't mean the majority of those vulnerable and radicalized people are irredeemable. Some are just uncritically following the trend. Which is wrong, but not as bad as being ideologically devoted to it, and their redemption can be as simple as showing them there's a different way to be.
The main focus should be on helping vulnerable people before they become radicalized, but at this point I suspect everyone has already been corralled into one camp or another... Unfortunately no one was willing to listen to my soap box years ago, back when it was still possible to avert this calamity, at least to the same degree.