Who was the real threat in Berkeley?

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From the article:

A DELUGE of denunciations of Antifa and the Black Bloc followed the successful anti-fascist mobilizations in the San Francisco Bay Area on August 26 and 27....

Corporate media outlets predictably followed suit, with, for example, neoconservative commentator Marc Thiessen writing in the Washington Post that Antifa "are no different than neo-Nazis." ...

Even some segments of the left piled on. Truthdig published an August 27 commentary by author and journalist Chris Hedges in which he wrote that anti-fascists and the Black Bloc are motivated by "the same lust for violence" as the neo-Nazis of the alt-right....

THE TIDE of criticism of left-wing violence following the counterprotests in Berkeley obscures four basic facts that need to be remembered.
-- First, the political violence deployed by the far right has been much more extreme than anything the left is responsible for.

To read more:

https://socialistworker.org/2017/09/07/who-was-the-real-threat-in-Berkeley

The media, and many politicians, love to promote the false equivalence argument, but given the history of police provocation and false flag operations that have been directed against progressives, we should hesitate before automatically condemning people who demonstrate against the actual fascists.