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Yes. That is them currently, being ignorant and having their ignorance manipulated by our mutual enemy. That doesn't make them our immediate enemies. That makes them fellow working class people who are being exploited, only in a different way.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people, due to how the human mind is predisposed to work, operate solely on their own limited anecdotal experiences to get through life. Some of us learned how to think beyond this, that our limited experience meant our intuition was fundamentally flawed and we must change our opinions based on outside information even if it goes against our base intuition. Others were manipulated from a young age to trust this instinct and to use that instinct to judge if outside information is legitimate or not so that they could readily be fed information that intentionally is written with rhetoric designed to prey on this flawed logic.
So, unfortunately, if something doesn't affect them or they aren't directly exposed to the unjust consequences of these actions in a way they cannot just easily write off, they will not change their ways. So we have to expose them to it. We have to educate them.
Until the lines of armed resistance are drawn, our efforts should not be to outright ostracize but to educate and recruit, and to break the mental conditioning that our fellow working class people have been subjected to against their will.