Pushing the idea that agitators led protesters into bad behavior is absurd

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92. Not really

Black Bloc is more purely anarchist in its beliefs, aims, and tactics. If you walk through downtown Oakland and see entire sections of shops, banks, etc., boarded up, you immediately know Black Bloc has been lurking about.

Antifa is kind of more authoritarian Marxist.

The Right conflates every far Left group and Antifa is their flavor of the decade, but if you listen you can figure out who's who. I had a tenant for about a year who was Antifa with his friends. Super into oppressor/oppressed ideology. He used to read books like "Brown Skin, White Minds" (which I read at his urging and rolled my eyes so hard, I'm still taking advil for it). It's the kind of thinking that isn't self-aware enough to realize how incredibly racist it is and how authoritarian its aims and goals.

There are some who think they're going to be the ones to put their enemies against the wall without the historical knowledge to understand they will be the second ones against the wall.

The kind of stuff you can only possibly believe when you're basically a college freshman and knowledge, wisdom, and experience hasn't yet been mixed in with all those shallow epiphanies.

And some people just never grow out of that stage.