10-19-2020, 07:55 PM
(10-19-2020, 07:31 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Yea, I'm most certainly not saying "both sides do it".
I am specifically criticizing anyone who would characterizes "the left" based on the actions of Antifa, which is an illogical argument, because they would never apply the same terrible logic when it came to "the right" and right wing extremism.
The entire premise of the thread is asinine, but I suspect it was entirely bait.
I think a significant reason for this is that antifa gets a lot of positive spin in the media. At the very least their excesses don't get nearly the coverage that their actions would normally command. You also get people, some of them here, comparing them to the men who fought in WW2, which is a horrible insult to the memory of those brave men, almost all of whom would find the actions of antifa utterly repellant. I think if antifa got the same amount of negative media coverage that a group like the proud boys get then you'd see a lot fewer people lumping antifa in with the more mainstream left.
