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You're right, all extremists are like that. The thing is, the OP was claiming that we need to talk to these people, respect them, engage with them, etc., even when we're just taking a ride in a taxi. My position is that, no, you don't need to try to talk to extremists when you just want to get from point A to point B, and also that trying to change these peoples' minds rarely works out.

Finally, no, singling out one group does not make you look like an opposing group's extremists. If you complain about neo-Nazis marching in your city this weekend, for instance, that does not somehow make you look like an extreme leftist. The simple fact is that right-wing extremism is very common these days among certain groups of people; you're probably not going to find any extreme leftists in a random rural American town, for instance.


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