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Someone mentioned antifa at work the other day, and I said, "Antifa? I'm in. Shitting on fascists has been an American pass time for a century or better."

The looks of shock and horror on my coworkers faces was quite the sight to behold.

"Fascist journalist fears for life." I fail to see where the problem is. People would have been cheering this in 1945.

Isn't this the asian guy who doesn't understand that white supremacists only like white people and claimed to be suing the CEO of Antifa for damages that never actually happened?

Anti-antifa... That's just fascism with extra steps.

Many issues with this headline, but one of them is the word journalist, which implies some form of neutrality. The headline should either be a L out a journalist that writes about antifa, or a pro-facism activist. I suspect from the context (Fox) that it’s the latter.

Well yeah Andy Ngo does literally hang out with fascists so that's a given lol

Finally I understand what antifa means.

I am not American and have been out of the loop for years now.

It's crazy how many people just on this meme think antifa is an actual organization. 🤦

It's more than just "fascist journalist". Journalists report facts (at least that is what they're supposed to do), any "blah blah journalist" is just "blah blah"

Also, fuck this guy, he doesn't fear for his life, it's just a made up story so they can again shit on those they hate.

I seem to recall seeing a video or reading an article where they mention that the media turned antifa into a sort of separate word to warp its meaning. Instead of saying anti fascist, which has a clear meaning, they shortened it and changed the pronunciation 'an teefa' (something to do with which syllable you emphasise) so they could distort its meani g and demonise the word to make people think it was bad.

So now people dont realise antifa means anti fascist which is surely a good thing to be, and instead, they fear antifa as some kind of terrorist group, which is almost the opposite of what it is.

The funny thing is, as an outsider to this, living in the UK, our media doesn't ever use the term, and when i heard it, my instinct was to look up its meaning. It's interesting to me that i won't know if i would have fallen for it if the media were using it in the same way over here to lead my understanding of its definition

Be careful when you punch a fascist. You might hurt your hand/wrist. Best to read up ahead of time.

https://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Wrist-Pain-when-Punching

Pretty sure that anti-anti-fascism is just straight-up a Nazi trope.

I'm anti-anti-antifa.

Reminds me of https://medium.com/@jimsnijworst/why-antifa-is-not-just-as-bad-as-nazis-a-note-from-europe-7d3717963b47

Well, only classically

Bash the fash!

Best math course I’ve taken since schooling.

this is the kind of black and white thinking lemmy does best.

EDIT: i retract this statement. i was wrong

i was severely misinformed about what antifacism is. i was under the impression that "the antifa" was a group by itself instead of a mindset.

Anti-antifa only means you're against the people claiming to be anti-fascist. It doesn't mean you like fascism. Nor does being antifa mean everything you're against is fascism.

Anti-antifa does not subscribe to the law of the excluded middle, so double negation elimination does not apply.

EDIT: This was a math joke, but I'm proud that it seems to have gone over so many heads.

Real fascist are anti-antifa ? 🧐

I get a strong taste of sick everytime I hear someone say "math" in singular/American-English.

I know it's simplified English but it sounds so fucking lazy and stupid.

The difference between the extreme wings is miniscule. Methods, Objectives and Goals are the same, just the arguments differ slightly.

In Germany half of the voters of the Ultra-Left Party "Linkspartei" went within one election to the Ultra-Right Party "Alternative für Deutschland". Even starnger, the AfD is financed by Putin who wants to recreate Stalinism, which is Ultra-Leftist, while the AfD wants to recreate a Führer-Cult which is Ultra-Right. And still both cooperate perfectly.

But don't think the US is better. While Linkspartei and AfD together are 15% in the US the equally Extremist-Trumpists are close to 50%.

People need to understand that the Extremists on the wings are closer to each other than to the middle. While the middle tries to better things in small steps the Extremists want to burn the house down with everyone inside and then see who survives.

Not really there are anti antifa centrists and leftists that are simply against extremist movements. At least where i live antifa is pretty militant so people basically group it with the fascists which is pretty ironic if you think about it. A long time ago i was also anti antifa but seeing the lenghts that "conservatives" go to fuck up everything we love im also swinging to a more violent leftism.

You can be anti something without supporting its polar opposite

By that logic people who are against Focus on the Family are against families. You don't get to own a concept just by putting it in your name.

What's a fascist mean to you nerds anyways? Like what does it even mean to be anti fascist?

Antifa is facist.

Atifa opinion: my opinion is right no matter what Facist opinion: my opinion is right no matter what

I don't support fascisms, but I also don't support violence and property damage to get the message across. I will never take a "movement" seriously that uses vandalism to get a message across.

I mean that would make sense if Antifa had anything to do with fascism. It's just one of many movements wearing labels that intentionally misrepresent it's members.

It's like being anti-Patriot act and then others claiming that you're against patriotism.

You're playing into their hands.

Antifa = antifascist like The Democratic Republic of North Korea is democratic.

Flip again.