Re:Facebook takes down Trump ads 'for violating our policy a...
by torstenvl on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:23AM
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Are you claiming they're descended from the Reichsbanner? Do you have a source for that?
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Re:Facebook takes down Trump ads 'for violating our policy a...
by wiml on Friday June 19, 2020 @01:13AM
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No, I mean the label Antifaschistische Aktion and its abbreviation Antifa literally originated with labor groups opposing the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party.
I'm not a historian, but understanding is that there isn't real continuity between that antifa (labor and communist anti-Nazi groups) and the modern antifa (the punk-direct-action-aesthetic antifa), which came about much later in the century, but that the name and association was adopted intentionally.