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Names are important. If you wanted to start a club, and you called this club the Ku Klux Klan, people would assume you were a bunch of racists, even if you ins
by nwallin 6y ago
Names are important.
If you wanted to start a club, and you called this club the Ku Klux Klan, people would assume you were a bunch of racists, even if you insisted you totally weren't. Even if, in reality, you actually weren't.
"Antifa" is a bad name to choose if you don't want people to assume you're a bunch of communists, just like "Ku Klux Klan" is a bad name to choose if you don't want people to assume you're a bunch of racists.
- vidarh 6y agoAntifa has been far more diverse than that for decades before most people had heard about them. There's now a massive amount of attempts to pretend they're a unified organisation with a single ideology that is almost exclusively coming from people wanting to discredit anti-fascism in general, who don't care at all that the image of antifa they're trying to push has very little to do with reality.