A recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document titled “Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide”* links common protest symbols to “terrorism” — another marker in a common theme of conflating militant protest for social justice with deadly terrorist violence within the United States. Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Brennan Center have raised warnings about such documents, citing inadequate protections for people’s constitutional rights.
In this context they’re using “extremist” to mean “goes too far”.
Do they? It didn’t really seem like a value judgment to me.
But you can also be right and go to far. I don’t know if these groups do go to far, but nuclear annihilation for example would definitely be too far.
In that case they’d be right about just the problem, but not right in their entire position which includes a solution. Nobody who thinks we should nuke the world for anything is right.
Yes, they do.
…except when it comes to the violent extremism of the FBI and other alphabet agencies, of course.
They don’t recognize it as extremism, and might even have the gall to deny that it’s violence.
I think we’ll have to agree to disagree as to what constitutes an obvious value judgement.