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minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down8·5 months agoChecking up on the definition of antifa it would appear these guys are not just “not fascist”, they are strongly left-wing. So it’s entirely possible for someone with a centrist view to be simultaneously anti-fascist and anti-antifa without paradox.
minus-squaretheonyltruemupf@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agoThe definition of antifa is “anybody who is against fascism”. “The Antifa” does not exist.
minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoWell that’s what I thought but I thought I’d better look it up to be sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States) which is littered with words like violence, doxing, harassment, property damage, anticapitalist, antistate, anarchists, communists, revolutionaries.
Checking up on the definition of antifa it would appear these guys are not just “not fascist”, they are strongly left-wing. So it’s entirely possible for someone with a centrist view to be simultaneously anti-fascist and anti-antifa without paradox.
The definition of antifa is “anybody who is against fascism”.
“The Antifa” does not exist.
Well that’s what I thought but I thought I’d better look it up to be sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)
which is littered with words like violence, doxing, harassment, property damage, anticapitalist, antistate, anarchists, communists, revolutionaries.