if you are a white christian male reporter who decided that this week is a great time to get interested in far right extremism for the first time maybe.... don't

the impact of bad/minimizing/romantic coverage of this stuff is enormous, and diving in headfirst makes you enormously likely to a) process violent liars uncritically and b) have no consciousness of the historical roots of this stuff and c) not examine your own biases

and i mention identity here not bc identity implies foreknowledge, but bc having skin in the game- being one of their targets - can countermand the tendency to approach the far right as a morally neutral or salacious subject, rather than...hate movements premised on violence

anyway, consult your colleagues on this beat before bogarting is all, end weird rant