Antifa: need to know

[Dill]

(08-16-2017, 09:40 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Except it's not that simple, not remotely.  You don't get to be something simply because you claim to be it.  Antifa is not anti-fascist, they are anti anyone that doesn't fall in lock step with their ideology.  When people fail to do so they respond with violence.  This is not a good versus bad struggle, this is one extremist form of ideology against another.  They both suck, they both engage in the same abhorrent acts, they just use different justifications for doing so.  Your buddy already condoned violence, as long as it is used against people he doesn't like.  I hope you won't fall into the same trap.

Asking if one can be fascist and anti-fascist at the same time doesn't lead one down the road of oversimplification.

You aren't not something just because you claim not to be either.

Allies and Axis during WWII engaged in the same abhorrent acts, just using different justifications.

One may condemn some of Antifa's actions without equating them them the KKK, I think. They don't seem to respond with violence to just anyone who disagrees them. Both Nazis and Antifa use violence against people they don't like. Nazis don't like people because of their race and Antifa don't like people who don't like people because of their race.