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Over a decade ago, I hosted monthly meetings and, like today, white identity attracts a certain militia type. One of them was always insisting that we do more second amendment stuff. I told him that gun rights weren't what we're here for. https://twitter.com/AxelSavage4/status/1336611136645464067
He called my bluff and got most of "my" group to join him in a pretty successful open carry march for gun rights in Indianapolis. I wasn't upset. I'm just, personally, not going to get sidetracked with random conservative distractions from my own work. Your mileage may vary.
He drifted from the group because I wasn't right wing enough, and a few months later his toddler reached up onto the table and shot herself in the face, dying instantly, from one of the guns he had scattered around his house in the presence of small children.
He was tried and convicted and I never heard from him again. He was a good dude and nobody deserves a reckoning that unconscionable. I'm not making light of his plight, ...but explaining why I distance myself from a lot of right wing "tough talk."
The bottom line is that white activism is the least fun and least rewarding political work you can possibly do. They make it that way on purpose. There's a constant temptation to redirect your energy elseswhere, and to concoct excuses to do so.
If you don't stubbornly refuse to ride around in circles on the contard carousel of reactionary republican politics, that's all you'll end up doing with your political life, getting sucked into this or that "right wing" bullshit.
