Wintreath

French Albania wrote:

What is more useful in gauging their intention is to ask what other organizational work they're doing; if they respond with things like mutual aid, community defense (centered on de-escalation), or talk about things like decolonization and deimperialization (and provide examples of such), you can be reasonably assured that they're probably not just in it for violence's sake. You might not agree with their political stance - I don't know your personal politics - but there's very, very clear evidence that right-wing groups are far more violent and deadly than left-wing groups, whose violence is largely (though admittedly not exclusively) limited to property damage.

If, however, you instead get rhetoric about either 1) an impending race war (the more morally objectionable branch of the boogaloos, who want to create an ethnostate in the aftermath) or 2) an impending societal collapse and their desire to survive and dominate in it (another branch that's basically just anarchocapitalists and doomsday preppers hopped up on antigovernment paranoia, but who are marginally less objectionable simply because at least they aren't discriminatory), then yes, feel free to look at them through a negative lens.
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If anyone has any further questions about this or, hell, any other political issues in these chaotic times, I can't guarantee I'll know the answer, but I'm generally pretty upfront when I just don't know. You might not agree with my political stances - which, full disclosure, are fairly firmly in the 'socialist' camp (actual socialist, not Bernie socialist, to say nothing of whatever right-wing media is hallucinating when they call Biden one) - but I'm at least pretty objective in outlining where on the political spectrum a political group or particular policy falls. I will, naturally, be propagandizing my political views , which, by virtue of being mine, are thus obviously perfectly correct but I'm usually pretty obvious about it.

(And rest assured, just because I'm a leftist doesn't mean I'll ban people for expressing right-wing rhetoric; the only rhetoric that merits an automatic banjection is any form of discrimination, whether on the basis of biological sex, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, age, favorite color, nationality, or anything else that would constitute a protected class. You have the full right to express any non-discriminatory opinions you may have without any fear that moderation action will be taken against you. That said, I will probably argue with you.)
(I will discriminate on the basis of favorite color, anyone who likes yellow is a fool and I will obviously immediately banject them)