Unlike Antifa, the Proud Boys use violence only in self defense, as every American has the right to do.
I’m not disputing that.
But keep in mind that to Leftist THEIR aggression is justified because, much like Muslims, their grievances are rooted in some measure in that WE do not conform to their standards and WE do not to their thinking have justification to even exist. This is the case no matter if we are Deplorables who are the bad people (and they are the good people) or infidels with our own countries and laws
This is what I call a type 2 snowflake.
The proverbial Gaystapo, homosexuals who seek to root out and eliminate any culture, institution or business that doesn’t actively embrace and defend their perversions, are non-Muslim examples of classic type 2s.
A type 1 snowflake is your classic running to their safe space, weeping inconsolably fragile type.
But a type 2 is tougher, opportunistically offended, and they use their offendability, their “grievances” (which are frequently defined in such a way to exclude other having any space at all) aggressively, militantly. And, yes, they used them to justify violence (crime too) while simultaneously (innthe case of the Left or Islam) making any act of defending yourself against them to be unjustified.
Where a type 1 retreats and cries a type 2 plots and advances. Type 2s manipulate type 1s, either co-opting to gain their agreement with their “grievances” (which again exclude others from having spaces of their own) or by dent of implied threat to engage their cowardice and therefore their obeisance ... with the end result being that type 1s become the tall grass that type 2s hide in as well as some of their best recruiting grounds.