I just want to give some context to this. My buddy from undergrad, we can call him buddy, was always a really open-minded thinker. He read buddhism. It seemed like he had respect for everyone, women included. He never spoke of any weird prejudices or sterotypes about gender or class or sexual prowess. He never really even discussed sex much. He got laid every so often. I think he had a girlfriend for some time. He wasn't some social outcast.

So we graduate and Buddy moves off to rural maine with a new girlfriend, but this time it was pretty serious. We all knew her in the year or so before graduation. She was very much progressive. This was all kind of just before SJW become a common term, but I'd say our friend group was very progressive. A bunch of us lived in the same house, it was a massive house. 2 stories, 5 bedrooms per story. So 10 people were living in this house and it was essentially our hang out spot for people like me who always lived on campus. But anyway, back to post-graduation.

So a bunch of us stay in our undergrad city but Buddy moves off to rural main with his girlfriend and becomes a school teacher. I lost contact with him for a bit, but then about 2 years after graduating he facebook messages one of the girls I was really close with. Let's call her Jen. Buddy messages Jen "What do you think my sexual market value is?". Jen shows me this message and I immediately put two and two together that he's using vocabulary from TheRedPill. Jen and I are a little worried about Buddy, but our thought is that he was always an independent thinker. We assumed he wouldn't fall into the hole of TRP.

Our comfort was shaken thought when another girl in our group was dating this other guy. Let's call him Tom. Tom supposedly, around this same time that Buddy starting using TRP terminology, had shaved his head and proudly proclaimed himself a skinhead neoNazi after diving into neoNazi websites. Tom wasn't even a weird dude in college. This girl he dated was beautiful. He was a pretty liberal dude raised in central California. So after realizing what internet holes could do to Tom, Jen and I started getting worried about Buddy.

I started reaching out to Buddy. I wanted to understand his philosophical evolution. I flat out called him out that he's using vocabulary from TRP community and that I'm worried he's falling into a toxic worldview. He admitted that he did find this vocabulary of TRP forums but denied being sucked in to it.

Anyway as a year or so passes we don't talk very occasionally and briefly kind of about nothing. Then the 2016 election starts coming in to play. He starts accusing political correctness of ruining the world. He begins essentially becoming a mimic for Jordan Peterson. He claims that we should all feel some shame for living in such hedonistic times. And this shit has stayed very much in play ever since January 2016 pretty much. He continues to talk about Jordan Peterson on an almost god-like level. Like This dude has the answer to everything. He explains to me that shame something he feels all the time but he thinks everyone should feel a little bit more shame.

I'm not what happened between him and his partner he moved to Maine with but she moved back to our undergrad city and said part of the reason she left was that Buddy's philosophies were becoming more and more entrenched.

Anyway fast forward to a few hours ago and a friend of ours on facebook posts about how a professor made a rape joke in class. This friend is in school to become a social worker and her professor, another social worker, is making rape jokes in class. She's a survivor of abuse and found herself in a pickle. Do you confront the professor who has the power to punish with a lower grade on the final coming up or do you say nothing. Naturally, she posted her quandary to the masses and Buddy just flat our trolled her post. Nothing productive. He even admitted he was just a "well-intentioned troll". This really pissed me off and I lashed out at him via messenger. It definetly wasn't my greatest moment. I transfered my entergy into pity, which also wasn't my greatest idea. I exclaimed that women aren't out to get him and that he can be proud of who he is with having troll people. I asked him about how trolling is remotley positive in this scenario.

I'm really at a lose. I know this is a crazy long post but any advice would be greatly appreciated. Maybe he just has to go on his own journey, maybe he's too far gone that only he can bring himself back, and maybe I'm over reacting and he hasn't been red pilled at all.

thoughts?