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Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole...
by nicky0 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:24AM
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Using violence to coerce people is fascism. How a violent activist group can claim to be anti-fascist is beyond me. They have become the thing they claim to hate.
Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole...
by frabbit on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:54AM
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No it's not. Fascism uses violence to coerce people. Pretty much every ideological system that is in power uses violence to coerce people. Liberals uses the police to coerce the majority of the population to not take their stuff. Conservatives do the same thing. The great western democracies used violence to coerce the nazis to not occupy their states.
Your definition is meaningless and imprecise.
And that's the problem.
This story is natural clickbait because you have literal fascists claiming to be anti-fascist, which is an obvious contradiction.
But if Antifa is just anybody who is against fascism then violent anti-fascists are Antifa. You can't say they're not when they actually are against fascism. And without any official leadership to disavow the advocation of violence, now your label is tainted by violent evildoers and you get to enter the grab-bag of boogymen for whenever somebody needs one.