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Yes you can
Yes you should
Political views are also a choice, unlike most of the other things on that list, to state the obvious.
Not to get all
but you didn't just fall out of a coconut tree. You're the product of your historical and material conditions.
In that sense, its not unfair to say that kids who grew up ensconced in the imperial core are inevitably going to have political views informed by their personal economic conditions and educational institutions. What's more, as the benefits of the imperial core being contingent on the continued exploitation of foreigners and "illegal" domestics, the First Class Citizens are in a naturally adversarial relationship with their Second Class and foreign peers.
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That's not an argument against inclusion. At some level, you are right to exclude folks with toxic ideology from events focused on organization and action that these poisoned ideologues are going reflexively to opposed.
It is simply a recognition that certain people have more agency wrt their political philosophy than others. Folks who get to go to University and travel the world and meet people with adverse ideology and conditions and actually do something to participate in the struggle for liberation are on a very different footing than folks who just grew up in the back country of empire and fed themselves from the company store that's suddenly got empty shelves and a big "Immigrants Did This To You" placard where the treats used to be.