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 theyve 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: Dartmouths 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: Its basically a politics or an activity of social revolutionary self defense. Its a pan-left radical politics uniting communists, socialists, anarchists and various different radical leftists together.....
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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, ...
Antifa is the new militant arm of the ‘Rat Party Party replacing the KKK.
So was the Final Solution. Any insanity can be called moral by its advocates. It doesn’t make it so.
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.........
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.
It’s all part of the Globalist New World Order. I am not be sarcastic or facetious either.
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.
They left out his complete name - “Mark Braying Jackass”. Heehaw, heehaw!
President Trump is a genius: He is forcing the Left to ally themselves with these evil, violent, anti-American idiots!
Sad.
Expecting a Liberal to have rational thoughts is wasting ones time. They do not have a normal thought process at all
Expecting a Liberal to have rational thoughts is wasting ones time. They do not have a normal thought process at all
It’s ethical until they label Mark Bray a “fascist” and beat him to a pulp. Therein lies the problem.
They can’t understand normal thinking. Even the ones with XY genetics (I won’t call them “men”).
In the twisted, inverted, psychotic paradigm of the Left, this probably makes sense.
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