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It baffles me why people continue to judge movements they don't like based on their worst members and movements they do like based on their best intentions. I don't agree with their position but most of the truckers aren't Nazis any more than most BLM participants were looters.

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If the worst members of a movement are also the organizers, i think its right to judge [in this particular case referring to the MOU document]

If the group you're in pulls out Nazi flags and you don't leave the group, then you're endorsing Nazism the same as if your group starts to break into a house and you don't leave the group then you're an accessory to breaking into a house.

It's very basic stuff here.

If one person pulls a Nazi flag or throws stones at riot cops, he is an agitator and must be outed. Throwing your hands up and leaving will leave you running circles, and is not very mature.

That's a different story, as evidenced by the fact that you told a different story than the one I told.

If you're in a group and someone starts throwing stones at a cop, you help the cop get that person (at the very least by getting away from that person so you don't interfere with the cop). If you're in a group and a person joins the group and pulls out a Nazi flag, then you kick that person out of the group unless your group sympathizes with Nazis.

who said they were in the group? if you keep seeing nazis everywhere than maybe you're the one with the problem?

If I see Nazi flags and Swastikas being waved proudly, and I say, "Man, I can't believe there are Nazis over there, I thought we first world countries absolutely hated Nazis!", why would that be a me problem?

Boogaloo Boys are regularly present at BLM protests. Does the failure to kick them out mean the people around them endorse the murder of police and the violent overthrow of the US government?

If they are protesting with the blm people (e.g. intermingled), then yes.

If they are having counter protests e.g.seperate protests within proximity but clearly distinct, then no.

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