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Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole... by dependenttypes on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:51AM (#23389054)
It is more like an anglosphere thing I would say. In my experience so far it seems that at least some Europeans have pushed the American meaning of "antifa" into the term "anarchist".

Regardless, the www does not discriminate based on where you live[note]. You get both Europeans and US residents seeing the same content, so I expect that to change soon (if it hasn't already - similar to the term "liberal" shifting from economic liberalism/capitalism to mean left wing).

[note] excluding things like "this video is not available for your country"

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Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole... by enriquto on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:02AM (#23389422)
> Regardless, the www does not discriminate based on where you live[note].

google searches are strongly ip-geolocalized

> You get both Europeans and US residents seeing the same content

I disagree. Most europeans do not read english content at all.

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Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole... by rtz12 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:11AM (#23389164)
> some Europeans have pushed the American meaning of "antifa" into the term "anarchist".

Let me cite the German Wikipedia:

> Antifa (Akronym für Antifaschistische Aktion) ist der Oberbegriff für verschiedene, im Regelfall eher locker strukturierte, kurzfristige autonome Strömungen der linken bis linksextremen Szene.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa

Here, Wikipedia describes Antifa as an umbrella Term for "autonomous groups" in the far-left extremist scene.

"autonomous groups" being:

> Als Autonome (altgriechisch: αὐτονομία, autonomía, „Unabhängigkeit, Selbstständigkeit“) oder autonome Gruppen werden heute Mitglieder bestimmter linksradikaler[1] unorthodox-marxistischer beziehungsweise anarchistischer Bewegungen bezeichnet.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonome

Describing them as members of "unorthodox marxist/anarchist" movements.

For all I can remember, this was the definition of "Antifa" here in Germany. Despite constant whitewashing and overton-window shifting attempts.

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