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Antifa Violence Is Ethical? This Author Explains Why
NBC News ^ | August 26, 2017 | Benjy Sarlin

Posted on 08/28/2017 3:42:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

After decades of relative obscurity, the fringe "antifa" movement is becoming a household name after followers clashed with white supremacists at the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally where extremist Alex Fields is accused of murdering 32-year-old activist Heather Heyer in a car attack.

But the movement is still loosely defined and organized, making it difficult to get a grip on its size and aims.

Professor Mark Bray, a historian and lecturer at Dartmouth, has tried to fill the gap in his new book, "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," that chronicles its rise. While Bray doesn't participate in the group's protests, he nonetheless considers himself an ally.

President Donald Trump called out the antifa movement by name at an Arizona rally last week, but they’ve attracted criticism from conservative and liberal commentators alike for its use of violent protest to shut down public events featuring far-right speakers. Bray has attracted his own criticism: Dartmouth’s president put out a statement distancing the college from any "endorsement of violence" after Bray defended antifa tactics on Meet The Press.

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Bray talked to NBC News about the antifa movement — and the role violence plays within it — on Thursday. Our conversation, edited for length and clarity.

NBC News: How would you define the antifa movement?

BRAY: It’s basically a politics or an activity of social revolutionary self defense. It’s a pan-left radical politics uniting communists, socialists, anarchists and various different radical leftists together.....

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: antifa; antifaduh; antifirstamendment; communists; insurrection; sedition; terrorism; terrorists; trump; violence; whatgoesaround; willcomearound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A list of Republicans who outright defended or at least inferred that Antifa's terrorist tactics are legitimate political discourse...

Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Paul Ryan, Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Ben Sasse, Ed Gillespie, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Cory Gardner, Sen. Jerry Moran, John Kasich, Rep. Ed Royce, Rep. Leonard Lance, Yeb Bush, Rep. Will Hurd, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Dean Heller, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Senator Todd Young, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, ...

21 posted on 08/28/2017 4:15:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Video say it better;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqt12XeF24A


22 posted on 08/28/2017 4:22:15 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Antifa is the new militant arm of the ‘Rat Party Party replacing the KKK.


23 posted on 08/28/2017 4:27:21 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So was the Final Solution. Any insanity can be called moral by its advocates. It doesn’t make it so.


24 posted on 08/28/2017 4:27:26 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: TigersEye

Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Paul Ryan, Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Ben Sasse, Ed Gillespie, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Cory Gardner, Sen. Jerry Moran, John Kasich, Rep. Ed Royce, Rep. Leonard Lance, Yeb Bush, Rep. Will Hurd, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Dean Heller, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Senator Todd Young, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,

All Cheap Labor Express Republicans, too, mmm, just a coincidence, I’m sure.........


25 posted on 08/28/2017 4:29:25 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr Bray and what he writes about Antifa is being promoted in multiple Left-wing venues for some days, NBC included now, to whitewash and sanitize the outfit for the ignorant sheeple that rely ONLY on the LameStreamMedia.


26 posted on 08/28/2017 4:31:09 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It’s all part of the Globalist New World Order. I am not be sarcastic or facetious either.


27 posted on 08/28/2017 4:40:01 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So this means that once Americans finally get fed up and start taking the Aunt Tifah bozos out, that will be ethical too. That’s good news.


28 posted on 08/28/2017 6:57:37 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Second Amendment. NOW more than ever!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They left out his complete name - “Mark Braying Jackass”. Heehaw, heehaw!


29 posted on 08/28/2017 8:57:46 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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President Trump is a genius: He is forcing the Left to ally themselves with these evil, violent, anti-American idiots!


30 posted on 08/29/2017 4:59:47 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sad.


31 posted on 08/29/2017 8:28:20 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: NorthMountain

Expecting a Liberal to have rational thoughts is wasting ones time. They do not have a normal thought process at all


32 posted on 08/29/2017 1:09:10 PM PDT by okie 54
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To: NorthMountain

Expecting a Liberal to have rational thoughts is wasting ones time. They do not have a normal thought process at all


33 posted on 08/29/2017 1:09:12 PM PDT by okie 54
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s ethical until they label Mark Bray a “fascist” and beat him to a pulp. Therein lies the problem.


34 posted on 08/29/2017 1:12:10 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: okie 54

They can’t understand normal thinking. Even the ones with XY genetics (I won’t call them “men”).


35 posted on 08/29/2017 1:22:46 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: NorthMountain
Idiot “Professor” does not realize the can of worms that he is opening for his opposition. He might think so, but contrarians/”educated class” are the first to be decimated by either side that gains control.
36 posted on 08/29/2017 1:28:11 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the twisted, inverted, psychotic paradigm of the Left, this probably makes sense.


37 posted on 09/03/2017 7:36:16 AM PDT by Savage Beast (To the insane, the sane appear insane. MAGA = Renaissance!)
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