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How to Distinguish Between Antifa, White Supremacists, and Black Lives Matter


Our public discourse should draw finer distinctions than can fit on a protest sign. Joe Penney / Reuters

Navigating the most fraught conversation of the moment requires attention to both means and ends.

Conor Friedersdorf Aug 31, 2017

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/drawing-distinctions-antifa-the-alt-right-and-black-lives-matter/538320/

Suggest you read that one, conix. To your no problem? Only you suggest, even though you were being sarcastic, still only you suggest it.

From yours

"Antifa veterans are wary of newcomers raring for a fight, however.

“A lot of people are coming into antifa because of the thrill of violence, and that’s not what we’re about,” said Mike Isaacson, an anarchist PhD student and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “Anti-fascists are community oriented, and we do make the effort to keep everyone as safe as possible.”"
.. your link .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/antifa-guardians-against-fascism-or-lawless-thrill-seekers/2017/09/14/38db474c-93fe-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_antifa-755pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.2593dfed966a

In there is one reason why your forlorn equivalence fixation is invalid.

Our position on extralegal means used by some who see themselves as Antifa has been made unarguably clear. Here

fastlizzy -- whoever those 'anarchists' actually were, they clearly were outsiders to the primary demonstrators/demonstration...
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=134237565

and here .. yep, i was dismayed by their violence, too.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=134205792