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In reply to the discussion: Does Antifa actually exist or is it a figment of the disturbed Republican psyche? [View all]brush
(53,764 posts)It's become a catch phase for FOX, republicans, megats to throw around to scare the right and to blame for all the resistance for their fascist policies. Remember they tried to blame Jan. 6 on antifa, and as recently as a few days ago the republican cretin senator Ron Johnson just bloviated how he would've been scared if antifa or BLM were behind the Capitol insurrection when it was actual the right wing militias the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
So they hurl the term around to damage the left and our protestors but I will continue to try to get folks here on DU especially, to understand what it is is really a mindset of being against fascism so they don't buy into the right wing memes that it's the left's equivalent of their right paramilitary thugs.
They also get lumped into anarchist activity, like the white girl who was setting fires in the Atlanta protests are the cop shot the black guy who fell asleep in the fast food drive-thru.