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'Antifa' violence in Berkeley spurs soul-searching within leftist activist community
Los Angeles Times ^ | 8/29/2017 | Paige St. John and James Queally

Posted on 08/30/2017 2:35:15 PM PDT by mdittmar

Of the dozens of organizations that turned out for Sunday’s mass protest against racism here, one group was impossible to miss.

Its members dressed head to toe in black, with masked faces and some bearing pastel-painted riot shields that read “no hate.” These 100 or so militants billed themselves as a security force for progressive counter-protesters, vowing to protect them from far-right agitators.

But as the protest got underway, some of those in masks would resort to mob violence, attacking a small showing of supporters of President Trump and others they accused, sometimes inaccurately, of being white supremacists or Nazis.

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Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You

1 posted on 08/30/2017 2:35:15 PM PDT by mdittmar
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I can’t hear that song quite the same way ever again after watching “Reservoir Dogs.”


2 posted on 08/30/2017 2:37:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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LOL! The only soul searching the Democrats/Leftists/Socialists are engaging in is how to continue the revolution without looking so bad on camera.


3 posted on 08/30/2017 2:37:49 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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If the left are going to win the hearts and minds, they will have to turn their backs on antifa.

Advocating for violence is the next level and a hairs width away from Civil War. Because the violence will escalate until people are shooting each other in the streets.

And once Civil War has begun, it will be impossible to stop.

The Left need to rethink their position.

4 posted on 08/30/2017 2:40:36 PM PDT by dhs12345
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“Communist ‘soul searching’” —> How can we accelerate the darkness of tyranny over the entire globe? How can we subjugate and enslave the entire human race?


5 posted on 08/30/2017 2:40:44 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: mdittmar

Dig this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u40r9dBEQtE


6 posted on 08/30/2017 2:41:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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soul-searching within leftist activist community

Now THERE'S a contradiction in terms. The "leftist activist community" has no soul to search. It only exists to oppose everything that already is.

7 posted on 08/30/2017 2:45:38 PM PDT by IronJack (sh)
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So, did they find one?


8 posted on 08/30/2017 2:46:38 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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THEY *HELPED* US.

I hope they do it a lot more.

Looking forward to 2020..!


9 posted on 08/30/2017 2:47:06 PM PDT by gaijin
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Article title is misleading.

Leftist activists have no souls. They were given (or sold, in some cases) to Satan.


10 posted on 08/30/2017 2:47:09 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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And if the left is unable to stifle conservative speech they lose for sure anyway because we have ideas on how to improve things for everyone and they have nothing but a plan on how to divide and enslave.


11 posted on 08/30/2017 2:48:26 PM PDT by KyCats
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Hmmm....something happening here on the left. AFTER Trump calls out Antifa and other violent leftist groups the leftist press and politicians seem to be coming around. Either the polling is horrible for them or Trump has something on them.


12 posted on 08/30/2017 2:49:12 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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Exactly correct!


13 posted on 08/30/2017 2:49:23 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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Are they waking up to the meaning of the phrase “useful idiots”?


14 posted on 08/30/2017 2:50:32 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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“sometimes inaccurately”

This of course implies that the LA Times knows when they were “accurate,” so it knows which were the Nazis and white supremacists.

Times, please tell us which ones where Nazis and white supremacists.


15 posted on 08/30/2017 2:50:50 PM PDT by Chaguito
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“I hate Nazis.” - Indiana Jones

5.56mm


16 posted on 08/30/2017 2:51:32 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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'Antifa' violence in Berkeley spurs soul-searching within leftist activist community

Horse manure, Berkeley Leftist Agitators don't have souls to search.

17 posted on 08/30/2017 2:51:38 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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They have souls—eternal souls. Unfortunately, as you point out, these souls are now in the possession of someone else...someone sinister.


18 posted on 08/30/2017 2:51:54 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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there is no “soul searching” on the left, because they have no souls, just black, hate-filled, shriveled hearts. Whatever noise they are making now is because they realize that they have over-reached. We saw the same thing after the San Jose riot during the campaign, after that there weren’t any more riots, they backed off, because they know that most people don’t like rioters. Give them time, and they’ll ratchet up the violence a notch or two, back off, ratchet it back up higher.

They are the most dishonest and hate-filled people I’ve ever seen, don’t trust them, and don’t believe what they are saying. Remember, if their lips are moving they are lying.


19 posted on 08/30/2017 2:53:44 PM PDT by euram
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“Soul-searching”? Not too likely. The only controversy within that very nasty community is over the suspicion that this level of violence may have occurred too soon to cover up successfully, which in fact, it did.


20 posted on 08/30/2017 2:55:00 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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