The Problem With Antifa

in #anarchy6 years ago (edited)

Haven't you heard of a violent group of extreme leftists who call themselves "Anti-Fascists" and try to silence dissenting opinions through violence as fascists would?, no?, well, in that case, you have just heard from them when you read this, today we will be talking about Antifa' and the problem it represents in the United States.

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Violence is bad, in my view, violence can only be positive if it is used for self-defense. Assaulting someone who has not assaulted anyone is "bad", using violence against innocents is "bad", basically everything that merits violence is negative, except, as I said before, in case of self-defense because you have been previously assaulted and are in danger, therefore, in this situation using violence would be for the sake of mere survival and morale should not be measured with this in mind. The point is, violence is not well regarded by society or by the editor of this post, so acts of violence are condemned regardless of where they come from, right-wing or left-wing.

Antifa is an "extreme left" or "Alt-Left" group, although they are really Anarcho-Communists, this group calls itself Anti-Fascists and as such they are against all ideologies, governments or ultra-right or Fascist organisations, in all their variants, such as Nazism. All right, aside from the fact that they are Communists and therefore Anti-Capitalists does not sound bad, it is a group that in theory opposes authoritarian governments and supremacist ideals, the problem is that for them, if you are not Marxist or in complete agreement with their ideals you are automatically an "enemy" or something like that, this can be seen when they attack conservatives for the simple fact of supporting Donald Trump, for example.

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With Antifa something very interesting happens, as you could notice in the video above, basically some relatively important media and certain relatively notable sectors of society seem to allow, cover up and even applaud this radical group, it is ridiculous and at the same time alarming that a comedian can do all this research work and that the media that are supposed to be specialists in the matter and their job is to do so have not even tried to investigate in depth what happens within this group, all for the simple reason of not making noise and not creating more infamy.

Nowadays, mainstream media is little "believed", people now prefer to contrast the news they see or hear with other media in order to check its veracity or if it was manipulated or not, this is very good, not only because it is a way of developing critical thinking, also because people are now more difficult to deceive by a "prestigious" media with clear political biases, this is something that the Libertarians and Conservatives had long ago done, also because of the censorship of pro-right news and the leftist propaganda of certain "media".

They insist on fighting against white supremacists and fascists, and therefore suppress freedom of speech and anyone who says things they consider "racist", for example, but... What fascists, really, what percentage of the American population is really Fascist or Supremacist, are fighting an imaginary war against a rival who poses no real threat and are trying to suppress the right to freedom of expression by force, as a fascist would, ironically, do? the fact is that this authoritarian way of thinking is thanks to ideology, let's remember that they are Communists and here's another irony, being "Anarchists" they have ideals and thoughts of an Authoritarian ideology such as Communism and they manifest this every time they try to silence the conservatives and violate whoever seems to support Donald Trump or is against his Marxist and savage ideals.

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As someone who hates the Fascists and of course the Nazis, I consider that the Nazis of today are not a threat, again, because of the ridiculous percentage of Nazis that may exist in a country like America, in fact, the real threat today would be Communism, which despite being an ideology that has killed and impoverished many more people than the Fascist ideology is idolized today by a considerable part of the population and an important part of the media, supremacist and fascist groups are terrible and reprehensible, I am totally against them, but the existence of Antifa does not help, it turns out that the attitudes taken by groups like Antifa to suppress freedoms and "banish" thoughts are those that create groups like Fascists and vice versa, the radicals create more radicals.


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Of course there is a certain degree of fascism in the United States, there is no denying it, but as I said before, even communists pose an even greater threat, so don't make a show of it, and even more so when you know that those who look most like fascists today call themselves anti-fascists. What happens is that what is politically correct is to condemn fascism and not communism, when both should be condemned.

The fact is, if to assert your ideals you need to be masked and use violence against innocent people then you are wrong, good ideas do not require strength and a demonstration cannot be based on repressing other demonstrations and creating a kind of "civil war without a budget". Thanks for reading, peace.

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#ReferencesTitles
1Capital ResearchAntifa Activist Faces Jail Time for “Nazi Punching”
2National ReviewThe Alt-Right Is Bad — And So Is ‘Antifa’
3TimeWhy the 'Alt-Left' Is a Problem
4YoutubeUNDERCOVER IN ANTIFA: Their Tactics and Media Support Exposed!

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to even think that facism exists other than the mainstream media and political party's in the us is unbelievable... and the amount even who is that extreme violent and left.. it shows how dumb people are held by the mainstream media

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