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Antifa riots against those who have a different view point than they have. In most cases having nothing to do with racism. They riot (not protest) against anyone who leans right politically. They are a political movement plain and simple. Blm is a racist movement. Antifa is a mob of violent thugs who try and shut down anyone who doesn't think like they do. One of the biggest differences with white supremacy groups and antifa and blm is that the white supremacy groups have been around longer. All 3 groups are terrorist hate groups and should be stomped out and i say why not let them stomp eachother out. Now, knowing that antifa, white supremacy and blm were all going to the same march if you attended... you got what was coming to you if anything happened. Everyone there knew it was most likely gonna pop off and everyone there was willing to defend one of these groups and if not then praise be to Darwinism.What Trump calls “the alt left” or called also antifa (which is short for anti-fascist) is a
movement that traces its roots to the militant leftists who in the 1920s and 1930s brawled with fascists on the streets of Germany, Italy, and Spain.
In the 1970s (and later in the 80s and even 90s) the Punk movement from UK and Germany mobilized to defeat neo-Nazi skinheads who were infiltrating the music scene. Via Punk, groups calling themselves "anti-racist action" —and later "anti-fascist action" or "antifa" — sprung up in the United States.
They have seen explosive growth in the trump era for an obvious reason: There’s more open white supremacism to mobilize against.
As members of a largely anarchist movement, antifa activists generally combat white supremacism not by trying to change government policy but through direct action. They try to publicly identify white supremacists and get them fired from their jobs and evicted from their apartments. And they disrupt white-supremacist rallies, including by force.
Some of their tactics are genuinely troubling.
They’re troubling tactically because conservatives use antifa’s violence to justify—or at least distract from—the violence of white supremacists, as trump did in his press conference.
They’re troubling strategically because they allow white supremacists to depict themselves as victims being denied the right to freely assemble.
And they’re troubling morally because antifa activists really do infringe upon that right. By using violence, they reject the moral legacy of the civil-rights movement’s fight against white supremacy.
So, yes, antifa is not a figment of the conservative imagination. It’s a moral problem that liberals need to confront.
But saying it’s a problem is vastly different than implying, as trump did, that it’s a problem equal to white supremacism. Using the phrase “alt-left” suggests a moral equivalence that simply doesn’t exist.
For starters, while antifa perpetrates violence, it doesn’t perpetrate it on anything like the scale that white nationalists do.
Second, antifa activists don’t wield anything like the alt-right’s power. White, Christian supremacy has been government policy in the United States for much of American history. Anarchism has not.
And antifa’s vision is not as noxious.
Antifa activists do not celebrate regimes that committed genocide and enforced slavery.
They’re mostly anarchists. Anarchism may not be a particularly practical ideology. But it’s not an ideology that depicts the members of a particular race or religion as subhuman.
If trump really wants to undermine antifa, he should do his best to stamp out the bigotry that antifa—counterproductively—mobilizes against.
Show me evidence of all the white supremacist violence, rioting, vandalism and the like in let's say the laat 2 years. Do you think it rivals the violence from Antifa? Since white supremacists are using Antifa violence to cover their own, as you stated, there should be plenty of examples of groups of white supremacists comitting violence similar to Antifa levels.Some of their tactics are genuinely troubling.
They’re troubling tactically because conservatives use antifa’s violence to justify—or at least distract from—the violence of white supremacists, as trump did in his press conference.
What power in today's government is wielded by kkk/white supremacists? What political power do they have?For starters, while antifa perpetrates violence, it doesn’t perpetrate it on anything like the scale that white nationalists do.
Second, antifa activists don’t wield anything like the alt-right’s power. White, Christian supremacy has been government policy in the United States for much of American history. Anarchism has not.
And antifa’s vision is not as noxious.
Now, here's the biggest kicker, imo. Trump did not defend either of these hate groups. He denounced them all. Those that aim to see trump fall attacked him for defending the white supremacist group, which never happened. Here ya go, here's the kicker. Those that attacked trump for doing something he never did have all been defending one of these other groups. So, once again, the left is making shit up and actually "doing" exactly what they are attacking trump for doing. Self reflection is a bitch.
I and others have asked you how Trump "equated" both groups in terms of historical violence. Trump equated them in the fact that both were equal participants in the violence that occured. If you were to say white supremacists are historically on a whole different level of violence and immorality as compared to Antifa I would completely agree with you. I don't think anyone with a clear head could argue that point. Problem is you are saying Trump equated them in total terms when in reality it was just based upon that one incident.
He doesn't have to clarify it differently. Anyone can have their words or statements interpreted differently by anyone. I see what you are getting at but I don't agree with your assessment. We don't have to agree but I do appreciate you having the discussion.Most of the criticism of trump's words has hinged on the suggestion that there is a similarity between the violence seen on both sides. It was his suggestion and he did not clarify it differently
And that is the core of the argument
Weighing up the violence on both sides misses the point
Hundreds of people showed their faces in public on Saturday to fight for the idea that people are better or worse than each other depending on their race. Counter-protesters showed up to fight against that idea.
Most of the criticism of trump's words has hinged on the suggestion that there is a similarity between the violence seen on both sides. It was his suggestion and he did not clarify it differently
Republican Senator John McCain, a frequent critic of the president, tweeted: "There is no moral equivalency between racists & Americans standing up to defy hate & bigotry".