Posted on 08/17/2017 6:40:17 PM PDT by Hadean
First bursting into the headlines when they shut down far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos in February at the University of California at Berkeley, antifascists again captivated the public imagination by battling the fascists assembled at the Unite the Right white power rally in Charlottesville.
But what is antifa? Where did it come from? Militant anti-fascist or antifa (pronounced ANtifa) is a radical pan-leftist politics of social revolution applied to fighting the far right. Its adherents are predominantly communists, socialists and anarchists who reject turning to the police or the state to halt the advance of white supremacy. Instead they advocate popular opposition to fascism as we witnessed in Charlottesville.
The vast majority of anti-fascist organizing is nonviolent. But their willingness to physically defend themselves and others from white supremacist violence and preemptively shut down fascist organizing efforts before they turn deadly distinguishes them from liberal anti-racists.
Antifascists argue that after the horrors of chattel slavery and the Holocaust, physical violence against white supremacists is both ethically justifiable and strategically effective. We should not, they argue, abstractly assess the ethical status of violence in the absence of the values and context behind it. Instead, they put forth an ethically consistent, historically informed argument for fighting Nazis before its too late. As Cornel West explained after surviving neo-Nazi attacks in Charlottesville, If it hadnt been for the antifascists protecting us from the neo-fascists, we would have been crushed like cockroaches.
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bs they been around causing BS for years now and have escalated the last 2 years. February 2017 yea right
Indeed, against violence, my arse. They hail from the Nazi National Bolshevicks who believe in a comprehensive form of end justifyig the means and the violent means being self justified to be the end itself.
They are communist historicist pimps, whose moral
superiority even surpasses those they pretend to protect. They call
self defense what is actually vengence and cultic moral
superiority.
We’ve pointed that inconsistency out several times ... I get the impression, but it is not proof, that the democrat-socialist-communist national press corpse is using it (the call for protesters) as its “fake news” lead in this story, KNOWING that they use its repetition to condemn ALL alternate news reporting analysis other than their “approved: sources (AP, UPI, NYTimes, WashPo, LA Times, etc.) And of course, their ABCNNBCBS TV stations.
For example, many commentators are using the Washington pizza story to illustrate - not the depravity and possible child molestation and prostitution in leaders of the democrat party, but to show what kind of stories can be repeated. All the while NEVER actually investigating the story itself while they refuse to investigate it. (Medved, for example, cannot find evidence refuting the story, but uses it to show why repubbies are bad!
Indeed, there is absolutely nothing different between a Nazi who feels white skin entitles him to a government stipend and these pieces of sht demanding free education and opinion making moneys with my earned money.
Yes. Damn it.
Thanks for point it out.
Stupid blunder.
Most of them are professors and students who feel
entitled to their government paid degrees, speech they have through taxing us.
There is little difference with a Nazi who feels his “nationality” entitles him
to a government stipend taken from other people working hard.
I think they’re projecting their own negative behaviors on the people that represent the opposite.
For a moderate American, there is no real difference between ANTIFA and the KKK. Both are fringe groups seeking to impose their radical will over the majority of Americans for their own benefit. Both groups are Anti-American, prone to violence, and self-serving. None of this is new. We have been here before.
What we need are laws where you can not wear a mask, hook etc. I want to know who these Fkers are.
I always thought antifa stood for anti-fascist. Why are they against the first amendment?
What we need is to realize this is 2017 not a cowboy movie. Get a cover for your own face or expect 68 years in prison for standing up.
Sry dude, I’m too old to go, Old folks like us will just shoot ya.
You’ll be alright oldie. Just hold the fort. Ill bring ya scalps for whiskey trade.
They r pure unadulterated Anarchists of the dangerous kind and they r aligned with The White Lives Matter group ( spin on the BLM movement)!!!
Comments, suggestions (especially for the "I"...?
Nah, beef, chicken and pork.
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The guy was a COMMUNIST domestic terrorist, and still very much a communist today.
Beef will be fine.
It's not his group. It's a front for the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). However, the RCP rose from the same organization as did Ayers' Weather Underground: SDS (Students For a Democratic Society). Ayers is definitely closely tied to the RCP, though.
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