> Study your history.
Such condescending tone. Much patronizing. Very naive.
I do study my history. I'm not saying that antifas are harmless. I'm saying that antifas in the US are a harmless joke.
> Any movement acting to normalize that kind of environment is just bad news waiting to happen.
What makes you think I'm normalizing that kind of environment? It seems you failed to read my post:
> It is good to see countries striving for a more neutral treatment of violent actions, from any ends of the political spectrum.
Lots of jumping to conclusions here. You jumped to the conclusion that I was preaching directly at you. I'm generally writing primarily to 3rd party using the discussion as a framework. And no, considering what violent extremists have done in the 20th century, I don't think it's naive at all.
What makes you think I'm normalizing that kind of environment?
Nothing makes me think you are. However, by performing such actions and getting a free pass in the US press, Antifa are doing that kind of normalization. Abrogating people's human rights because of their politics -- this is something that belongs in 3rd world dictatorships, not on US soil.
> It is good to see countries striving for a more neutral treatment of violent actions, from any ends of the political spectrum.
Sorry if you felt I was attacking you. I entirely agree. I criticize the extremes.
> Sorry if you felt I was attacking you. I entirely agree. I criticize the extremes.
Oh, sorry, I thought that you replying to my comment meant you were replying to me :)
No worries, all good!
They claim as their spiritual forebears, the "Red Shirts" who were part and parcel of the destabilization of the Weimar Republic. It's the clashes between the "Red Shirts" and the "Brown Shirts" that helped the Nazis rise to power there. They also claim some of the same forebears as the people who did this stuff in a 1st world industrialized country, very recently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)
I've also been speaking to a number of Antifa supporters on social media. The "organization" doesn't do a good job of promoting a coherent ideology which supports the notion of human rights. If anything, their media output indicates they feel they can disdain human rights for their cause. More precisely, they declare that they can unilaterally, extra-judicially decide to withdraw human rights from certain people and act accordingly. This is plainly what they both do and say.
Study your history. Violent clashes between extremists and the decay of the rule of law are the harbingers of a lot of very bad stuff. Any movement acting to normalize that kind of environment is just bad news waiting to happen.
(EDIT: Yes, it's good that they managed to defend Cornell West. Genuine defense against physical attack is fine. Unprovoked attacks and vandalism aren't. You can't excuse someone's whole record based on one good thing they did.)