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> Antifa is an organization This one baffles me. Obviously it is - not a national one, but there are plenty of regional organizations/groups using that name[1]
by AlexandrB 1y ago
> Antifa is an organization
This one baffles me. Obviously it is - not a national one, but there are plenty of regional organizations/groups using that name[1][2] who share similar goals/methods. This is akin to saying that "Anonymous" didn't exist back in the day - even though you had people organizing on 4chan to do collective action (mostly against Scientology) under that banner.
[1] https://rosecityantifa.org https://rosecityantifa.org
[2] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/forming-an-antifa-group https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/forming-an-antifa-gr...
- cholantesh 1y agoThe explicit comparison that started the contemporary discussion about Antifa was to MS-13 and Hezbollah, which is fractally inane.
- croes 1y agoThere are Antifa organizations but not the Antifa organization like Trump and his government claim. Anonymous is a good example, there is no Anonymous organization, people just spontaneously grouped under the label Anonymous. So two actions by Anonymous could actually mean completely different people. Do you think the group in your first link is a terrorist organization? They are not the Antifa, they are just antifascist organization. It’s an adjective not the name of a structured group like Hamas. And if you are contra fascism you are antifa too, so good luck