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In reply to the discussion: A quick word or two about Antifa [View all]Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)a boogeyman does not exist.
I think it's an important point to make because the republiQans use THAT definition of antifa to justify the proliferation of anti-Democratic and anti-democratic militias and messages. They use it to justify the white supremacist led militarization of republiQans. They use it justify their own horrible violence against the rest of us. They use it to make people believe there is a threat they need to fight, and that threat is violent Democrats.
I am sorry you have had to deal with the other definition of antifa. It sounds terrible.
But how are we to fight the republiQans' fallacious definition of antifa, which represents an extreme nation-wide danger, if we are not able to say their boogeyman named "antifa" - which we agree does not exist - is a nonexistent entity?