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Anti-Antifa

8/19/2017

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      Of course I'm against fascism.
    I mean, I'm not a hundred percent clear on exactly how fascism distinguishes from Nazism, Communism, totalitarianism, racism, anti-semitism, white supremacism, homophobism, or any of the other -isms the core tenant of which is the suppression of freedom, human rights, human dignity, justice, and the requirement to do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.  
     Maybe fascism includes all of the above. Or only some of the above. Whatever.  I'm against all those bad  -isms, as is any decent human being.
      But I'm also against Antifa. Or the Antifa.  Or the Antifas.  Or however one refers to this newly uncovered far-leftist militant group whose mission at this time in this country appears to be to fight back - physically - against armed alt-right groups  during white supremacists hate rallies. 

     The alt-right.
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    The Antifa.
      Which is not to say that I agree in the least with the nonsense spouted by Donald Trump about both sides being equally bad.
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     Where Donald Trump errs, where all of those who equate one side with the other err, is that, take away the Antifa's weapons, what they stand for is right.
      Take away the alt-right's weapons, what they stand for is still wrong.
      So while I stand for what  Antifa stands for,  I stand against using violence to make my stand. 
     (Not that, in a real war, Antifa would stand a chance against the American fascists;  Antifa shows up to protest hate rallies armed with sticks and pepper spray,

...while there are  always   cadres of  fascists who show up at their rallies armed to the teeth with assault rifles.
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     In fact, who remembers the scenes from last summer of downtown Cleveland outside the Republican National Convention?)
     So now anyone who supports what the Antifas stands for without endorsing them (or is it endorses what they stand for without supporting them? I should ask the Congressional Republicans who ran on Donald Trump's coat tail what the correct phraseology is), will be forced to try explain that no, the Antifa's method is not right, but, no, they're not the moral equivalent of alt-right neo-Nazi white supremacists; that there have been circumstances in which citizens have been justified in taking up arms against the Fascists,
... such as they did in the 1930's in Italy  against Mussolini's Blackshirts,
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...and that, while it's not outside the realm of possibility that such a thing could happen here (I mean, if Donald Trump could get elected here, then  let's face it, anything could happen here), it probably won't, so at this moment in time, when we still have the right to vote and the fascists don't control the government or the police force, a movement like Antifa is not only unnecessary,  ineffective,  and counterproductive in dealing with neo-Nazis and white supremacists - in fact there's nothing they'd love better than a good thuggy rumble -  but it blurs the line between peaceful protesters and itself and gives ammunition to people like Donald Trump;  and people will get hurt; but all that being said, the Antifas are still not the moral equivalent of the neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
       So thanks to Antifa, people like me will have to explain, and explain, and explain all of the above to smug  "gotcha now" Trump supporters.  Or what remains of them.
       (Sigh).  I'm exhausted already. 

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3/7/2019 03:44:35 pm

What history tells us is that there is nothing great about fascism. There are a lot of wars that were forced and instigated by fascist. It is a very ridiculous way of life, it is not something that I am very fond of. I hope that this way of thinking dies out in the next generation. For us to achieve true peace, we need to cut the weeds. We need to destroy the whole concept of fascism, like completely destroy it.

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B.Kevorkian
7/30/2020 03:33:57 pm

Those are some sweet sentiments.

Of course, strip Antifa of the their weapons and they're still anarcho-communists, and what they believe in isn't just wrong, it's at least as objectively nonsensical as anything Trump has ever babbled. That is, factually incorrect as well as morally and ethically indefensible.

It's just that it cribs a few enticingly nice slogans from classical liberalism. Just as the alt-right cribs a few pleasantly patriotic things from the american revolution.

Don't kid yourself that you agree with AntiFa's ends, but not their means - the means *are* they're ends. The end being a revolution to install a toltalitarian state. Same as the most whack-job of the actual neo-Nazi's they're nominally fighting.

The only difference is who would be runnning the shitshow.

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