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Originally Posted by Guest
You genuinely, honestly, never heard of Antifa until last week?
Really?
I guess you missed them at the anti-World Trade Organization protests in 1999 in Seattle.
And the 2011 Occupy Wall Street "lie in."
Antifa demonstrators have marched in more than a half dozen protests since Election Day in Portland, Oregon, according to police.
Earlier this year, Antifa activists were among those who smashed windows and set fires during protests at the University of California, Berkeley. I would have thought you might have seen that.
Antifa activists were in New York City on May Day.
Over the past year, Antifa members have been involved in clashes across the country and the world, including in Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Alabama and Nebraska, and at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
And..................you didn't hear about them until last week.
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Antifa is a terrible group who actually advocate violence.
They are the worst nightmare for those citizens who want to protest this presidency. If you live in the world of activists, be wary of who in fact sponsors the rally.
Alt right has been using and blaming everything on Antifa because it feeds their message of...woe is me, everyone is out to get Trump.
On the other hand, everyone in the left will blame the Nazi movement for all marches.
THIS IS THE REASON for my objection to this thread. People are jumping to conclusions about who is who. There are legitimate protests, and both the nazis and Antifa are smart enough and savvy enough to build into whatever they do, a way to blame the other side. In this case, it WAS a Nazi group holding the march, and the folks protesting them was a mixed bag. I do not like generalities, but the organizers announce where they stand as white nationalists before the march and also their involvement in last wekend.
Day and age of Facebook, twitter, etc. make it difficult to know the "players". I just think extraordinary caution needs to be taken before leveling charges.