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Sorry, you saw women and children being violently assaulted firsthand? I hope you filed a police report. Antifa is definitely not a new thing, having been arou

by rudiv 6y ago

Sorry, you saw women and children being violently assaulted firsthand? I hope you filed a police report. Antifa is definitely not a new thing, having been around in Europe since the rise of fascism in the first half of the 20th century.

jjgreen 6y ago
Anti-Fascism is not new, but "antifa" is an invention of German Nazis in 2016, https://www.einprozent.de/hallesaale-steuergelder-fuer-extremistenvilla/ https://www.einprozent.de/hallesaale-steuergelder-fuer-extre... the name shortened and popularised by Breitbart https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/11/25/german-city-accused-of-funding-left-wing-extremists/ https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/11/25/german-city-accu...
- rtz12 6y ago
  You are either lying or misinformed.
- lippel82 6y ago
  No, Antifa is certainly not an "invention" from 2016. Growing up in the 90s in Germany, local Antifa groups were a very normal and common phenomenon.
- DanBC 6y ago
  Wikipedia has an "antifa" page in 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa&dir=prev&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa&dir=prev&a... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa&type=revision&diff=25763654&oldid=25763556 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa&type=revis...
  - jjgreen 6y ago
    I stand corrected, thank you
- masnao 6y ago
  you are half correct, but welcome to the downvote brigade of people going against the hive mind. both antifa (term from the 30s and reused in Europe when neonazis showed up in the 90s) and BLM were term widely abused (and maybe even introduced) by the Russian troll army in the wake of US social movements after Occupy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/02/activist-russia-protest-occupy-black-lives-matter https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/02/activi... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fg%2F11f00qm9h3,%2Fm%2F012hdhkj https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

by rudiv 6y ago

jjgreen 6y ago

Anti-Fascism is not new, but "antifa" is an invention of German Nazis in 2016, https://www.einprozent.de/hallesaale-steuergelder-fuer-extremistenvilla/ https://www.einprozent.de/hallesaale-steuergelder-fuer-extre... the name shortened and popularised by Breitbart https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/11/25/german-city-accused-of-funding-left-wing-extremists/ https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/11/25/german-city-accu...

rtz12 6y ago
You are either lying or misinformed.
lippel82 6y ago
No, Antifa is certainly not an "invention" from 2016. Growing up in the 90s in Germany, local Antifa groups were a very normal and common phenomenon.
DanBC 6y ago
Wikipedia has an "antifa" page in 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa&dir=prev&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa&dir=prev&a... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa&type=revision&diff=25763654&oldid=25763556 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa&type=revis...
- jjgreen 6y ago
  I stand corrected, thank you
masnao 6y ago
you are half correct, but welcome to the downvote brigade of people going against the hive mind. both antifa (term from the 30s and reused in Europe when neonazis showed up in the 90s) and BLM were term widely abused (and maybe even introduced) by the Russian troll army in the wake of US social movements after Occupy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/02/activist-russia-protest-occupy-black-lives-matter https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/02/activi... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fg%2F11f00qm9h3,%2Fm%2F012hdhkj https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...