Can there not be more than one extreme or the other? This seems like an awfully simple way of looking at things.

I know that things like this do occasionally happen. One friend of mine who is really interested in Japanese and other Asian cultures, was very distressed over being called the w-word, and being blamed of cultural appropriation and fetishization and a racist by people in social justice. As well as being told he must think that Japan is a perfect paradise, even though he doesn't and is well versed in many of Japan's problems.

This made him feel alienated by social justice and the left wing. Feeling uncomfortable and unaccepted in being himself among people in social justice or parts of the left wing over the subject of appropriation and fetishization.

In response to this, he went to the other side and I saw him becoming fascinated in things like white nationalism and some forms of racist ultra-nationalism that would tie North-East Asians and Northern Europeans together into a similar group. He started becoming more and more of a Reactionary and NewRight type of person. And I think it was all in response to the whole Japanophile issue. He didn't used to be like that at all. And started becoming more and more right wing and conservative.

So I know that it does happen. But I don't think that it happens most of the time. I think that most people realize that there are more perspectives in life than just two. TERFs don't feel very welcome right now in the most of the feminist and social justice movement. But I don't think that most of them go to the far right over a few disagreements.

I don't think that most people think that, being alienated by something that someone said in the social justice movement, that sounded too extreme, necessary pushes people to the right wing. There are things said by some people in the social justice movement that make me feel uncomfortable, but that doesn't make me feel any more comfortable among the far right.