I think in general it is worth knowing when parts of your identity or your hobbies are going to bump elbows with fascists.
Bumping elbows doesn't mean that they are (necessarily) in your communities, but it does mean that your community might be a target for recruitment, or that they will hang out in the same spaces.
For example.
If you are in asexual spaces you _will_ bump elbows with incels. They will try to invade your spaces, or think they belong in your spaces, or think they will find sympathy in your spaces, or try to recruit in your spaces.
If you are in autistic spaces you _will_ bump elbows with nazis.
This doesn't mean that any of the members of your space _are_ that, it just means that without good moderation that is who will tend to eventually show up, and whose talking points will infiltrate your space. Sometimes covertly.
A key to prevent this is good moderation, but that's not sufficient. You also need to know the language of these groups and be mindful when it shows up in your spaces.
@hrefna I’ve often gotten the advice to not spend some time in “problematic spaces” (say, lesswrong, twitter, or incel spaces, …) because they would influence my thinking (I guess there is something to that, but I trust my absolute stubbornness 😂).
But when there is so much concerted effort to subvert spaces, it’s really useful to see the concentrated lingo and thought patterns of certain toxic movements to be able to clock them in less obvious places. I think doubly so as one ages out of being terminally online / out of touch with the current discourse, as we’re prone to think of ourselves as the savvy online 20 year old we might have been (saying this because of mastodon trending older millenial).