• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Just to be clear, your implication is that Antifa isn’t actually anti-fascist, but is fascist themselves?

    Do you realize how hard it would be for antifa, a decentralized concept that people self identify as, to band together to oppress everyone in favor of nationalism? And what nation would they be oppressing for?

    If you are correct, and I want you be clear that you aren’t and you’re dumb, but if you are correct then I’m fucking impressed by antifa more than ever.

    • felsiq@piefed.zip
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      2 days ago

      I think they’re just saying names aren’t always accurate, given the North Korea -> democracy (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and Nazi -> socialism (National Socialist) examples.

      Antifa is great but sweeping statements based only on a name like the one they’re responding to are definitely not accurate

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        2 days ago

        This assumes that antifa is an organization of some sort. If you think of antifa as an identity or aspiration the statement makes sense.

        Edit misspell

        • Bgugi@lemmy.world
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          Felsiq is right on the money - it’s a braindead argument regardless of how you feel about antifa.

          I don’t know why people itt keep saying that “it’s not an organization” somehow absolves it of any misdirection regarding its name.

          I suppose a more direct comparison is “if you’re anti-pro-life, you’re anti-life.”