OH BOY! If he signed an executive order for Twitter applying a fact check to a single tweet, what will his reaction be to the removal of a reaching ad campaign that he spent real money on?
Why do people bother with antifa moniker anyways? Is one syllable worth the loss in clarity that would come from having your opposition be forced to speak the word anti-fascist? To rule out willful ignorance of the public to discount "antifa" (strangely pronounced with the accent on the i, undermining the reception of the "anti" prefix) as some foreign set of concepts when in reality it is the basis of this nation.
Naming is irrelevant. You can make a group named anti-evil do anything. They would say "Are you anti-anti-evil? Are you for evil? What is wrong with you?"
“Essentially everyone is against Nazis/etc.“ I used to think that, too, but I think the last few years have made it clear that there are still plenty of “Nazis/etc” out there—certainly enough of them that the rest of us should be concerned.
Unfortunately normal folks may begin to appear as "Nazis" when you have been sufficiently radicalized. Very little has effectively changed in the past few years, aside from the extreme polarization of the media.
I thought you were going to link them to the brownshirts. Certainly they seem similar in many regards. I can't think of anything good to say about someone who thinks vigilante violence is a noble act.
No, I mean the label Antifaschistische Aktion and its abbreviation Antifa literally originated with labor groups opposing the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party.
I'm not a historian, but understanding is that there isn't real continuity between that antifa (labor and communist anti-Nazi groups) and the modern antifa (the punk-direct-action-aesthetic antifa), which came about much later in the century, but that the name and association was adopted intentionally.
Don’t get mistaken by their name. I’m a German, and here in Germany people who identify with Antifa call for and execute physical attacks on other people. People of this ideology have hate in their heart. They even hate democracy. They are beating up people who peacefully demonstrate for maintaining our democracies. Would you have guessed by their name that Antifa was that brutal?
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 51.5 ms ] threadAttempting to force advertisers to carry political ads probably wouldn't fly with the courts.
So are we just accepting this now? It’s not a group, at best it’s an ideology.
This lets them pretend they're talking about something different, but all the dogs hear the whistle.
Antifa today is still pretty firmly focused on anti-fascist action.
I'm not a historian, but understanding is that there isn't real continuity between that antifa (labor and communist anti-Nazi groups) and the modern antifa (the punk-direct-action-aesthetic antifa), which came about much later in the century, but that the name and association was adopted intentionally.