Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 22 2020 01:42pm)
I mean, antifa isnt really a group as it is a philosophy, and to be "antifa" means subscribing to that philosophy. Antifa doesnt have leadership or membership or whatever so depending on the context they can be right.
And there are hundreds of people who are obviously self-identified antifa, follow the same views and tactics as antifa or are fellow travelers of antifa, who have been responsible for violence and arsons during the riots
There are groups of loosely associated people who have at least some degree of organization, even if its just handing out supplies and identifying roles.
Just watching any footage of it made it abundantly clear, and the evidence leftover. Who do you think brought the baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire in the antifa "medic van" to the Minneapolis protests?
WaPo posted a 'fact check' claiming they don't exist and there's not a single proven instance. Despite there being multiple proven instances in a court of law on top of hundreds of hours of footage of them.
Take this exact same ambiguity and apply it to the descriptor "alt-right". Could they say there's been zero instance of alt-right terrorism, that "alt-right" is a philosophy not a group, and virtually every right-wing pugilist who gets arrested during some brawl at a protest will then denounce and disavow the "alt-right" and say he's a classical liberal or libertarian. And then we could deny the alt-right exists at all.
But you won't see publications like WaPo doing that, they'll throw around a charged label with pejorative connotations wantonly as long as its against the 'other side'. Heck they probably called Andy Ngo alt-right at some point.
This post was edited by Goomshill on Jun 22 2020 12:49pm