I understand why we do this framing dance on a regular basis but I think "militia" is functionally synonymous with "right wing domestic terrorist organization" in the lexicon of everybody who actually thinks the latter is a bad thing to behttps://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1314359098734006272 …
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I'm sure that's why some people see it as a value neutral or even positive term. I just don't know any of those people, lol
I dislike the use of 'militia' like this, because I think it's inaccurate to the meaning of that word (militias, I'd argue, definitionally are directed by or represent the state or larger community). But I find the strongest feelings re: militia come from miltwitter.
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I think part of it is the actual-soldier distaste for tacti-cool warrior-cosplay, and part of it is frustration on the part of folks who work with the actual militia, the national guard, and are bothered by that title being stolen by anti-government wackos.
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But that's just my observation; I'm just mil-twitter adjacent.
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I always figured the American use of the word referred to a localized semi-organized volunteer unit lacking in both standardized training and arms. Adding professionalism was part of the process that converted state militias to the National Guard system.
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But the state militia was still sort-of-internally organized. There were ranks, they were responsive to the governor, and they could have federalized, even back before the guard.
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