ACLU of California Statement: White Supremacist Violence Is Not Free Speech

Re:ACLU of California Statement: White Supremacist Violence ... by danso on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:10AM (#15034419)

Antifa generally doesn't apply for protesting permits as I understand it, so maybe this is a question that ACLU hasn't had to deal with?

edit: Being downvoted by people who might not have read the counter-protesters' permit: https://www.scribd.com/document/356483336/2017-Public-Demons...

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Re:ACLU of California Statement: White Supremacist Violence ... by gkoberger on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:12AM (#15034431)

They had a permit this past weekend: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/08/...

I can't speak for other protests.

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Re:ACLU of California Statement: White Supremacist Violence ... by danso on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:24AM (#15034481)

Maybe this is getting into a No True Scotsman argument, but that permit was not for what's often considered to be antifa. Being a counter-protester is not automatically antifa. From the link you posted:

> Walt Heinecke, a professor at the University of Virginia, told Moyer that he received a “special events certificate of approval” for events at McGuffey Park and Justice Park — sites blocks from Emancipation Park, where white nationalists had a permit for a Saturday rally.

Antifa, the group that is more commonly associated with things like Richard Spencer in the face, seems to be more informal: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/1/26/14369388/richard-sp...

Edit: Another example of what's associated with antifa: punching journalists http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4785564/Reporter-pun...

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