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Someone just had to come up with the goofy name "antifa" instead of just using "anti fascist".
by rcakebread 8mo ago
Someone just had to come up with the goofy name "antifa" instead of just using "anti fascist".
- Y-bar 8mo agoIt was originally shortened in German from ”Antifaschistische Aktion” and ”Außerparlamentarische Opposition”. Then that carried over to other languages as a common name. Feel free to go back to the roots! ;)
- Fnoord 8mo agoIt was shortened as the acronym AFA.
- GuinansEyebrows 8mo agodisregarding the history of the term, you see that even posters on Hacker News Dot Com dispute the accuracy of the term "fascism" as applied to contemporary american politics, so what difference would it make? people who are okay with fascistic politics will not distinguish opposition with a name change.