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I'd be interested in seeing evidence of anyone on HN self-identifying as antifa. I mean, I'm anti-fascist, but 'antifa' seems like a pejorative label at this po
by Angostura 8y ago
I'd be interested in seeing evidence of anyone on HN self-identifying as antifa. I mean, I'm anti-fascist, but 'antifa' seems like a pejorative label at this point.
- smcl 8y agoI haven't seen it either. In fact when I saw that the parent comment was flagged I thought that it probably called out the HN crowd for being too right wing. I've seen far more right-wing comments than left-wing - particularly when the James Damore stuff was hitting the news. And re "antifa" as a pejorative - I think it's only really used that way among the Fox news or Infowars crowd. If those guys want to come out as "anti-anti-fascist" then there's a much simpler term they can use ...