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In reply to the discussion: I am so sick and tired of the anarchists who tack onto peaceful protests [View all]TBF
(36,693 posts)which I'm sure you'll bristle at. I would've happily agreed with the OP had they simply spoken out against antisemitism. Instead, the theme is that the "awful anarchists (leftists)" are behind all the violence.
We don't know that to be the case at all. As I commented in another post, we saw plenty of Nazis in Charlottesville, and we certainly saw the masks when they congregated Jan 6th to attempt their coup d'état. Did anyone think those groups were the scary "anarchists"? No, we recognized these were MAGA and other right-wing extremists.
Not that there aren't some that are capable of violence on the left, but I'd posit that they are a lot less organized (and many fewer after the purge in the 50s) ... so why a large brush swipe at anarchists?