I’d call them normal.

If you’re friends with someone, wouldn’t you want to know if they’re also friends with someone problematic?

No. Because as a friend, it’s not my job to dictate my friends-friends.

Ex-cons might not be the best group to use in your example…

If I had a friend who kept the company of fascists, I’d probably drop them real quick - notably as the current iteration of fascists are intent on ensuring people like me are dead or ground under their boot.

On the flip side, just because I had a disagreement with someone doesn’t mean other friends can’t be friends with that someone - it takes a lot to be called “an enemy” of myself.

If I had a friend who kept the company of fascists, I’d probably drop them real quick

Not a good way to make them see reason. I know it’s hypothetical but if you’re friends shouldn’t you put in some effort to help instead of just drop them?

Given how out and proud the sentiments are expressed, the friend can’t say they didn’t know… I wouldn’t waste much time trying to have them see reason. You don’t accidentally join a dinner party where everyone else is a white supremacist, or an anti-vaxxer, or where everything they don’t like is woke and thus should be eliminated.

Either way I said probably… Which would likely follow as certainly after an attempt to see if maybe they have been wilfully ignorant (still not a good look).

You obviously don’t know how cults work. But that’s fine. I hope you’ll never lose a real friend to one.

Maybe give it as an example.