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Re:We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS a... by esperent on Thursday March 10, 2022 @11:07PM (#30636045)
The keyword here is "extremism". Doesn't matter whether the extremists label themselves as left or right.
Re:We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS a... by wpietri on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:12AM (#30640843)
Exactly. I read his response and said, "Wait, did I say anything about the far right?" No, I didn't.

In the US, right now violent extremists are almost all from the far right. At points in our history, we have had violent far-left extremists, so it's not impossible. It's not even inconceivable; given spiking wealth inequality, in some ways I'm surprised I haven't seen any anti-billionaire violence. Ditto climate-change and eco-terrorism. But it's definitely the case that extremist threats here are mostly from the right.

But I do think it's telling that he saw me pointing out the KKK and the American Nazi Party as examples of current violent extremism and thought, "How dare you attack the right!"