Thanks Robkk. I’m afraid that code didn’t fix it completely, however it gave me the missing piece to figure it out.
I had previously added a bit of found code to override my theme putting bullet points before everything in bbpress. Using your suggestion, I added the text indent to that code bit and it worked. The final solution for anyone else who finds this:
#main-content #bbpress-forums ul ul li, #main-content #bbpress-forums ul li {
margin: 0px;
text-indent: 0px;
list-style: none outside none;
}
