Words matter. PRONUCIATION matters. Please pronounce "antifa" correctly [View all]

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Last edited Tue Oct 28, 2025, 10:35 AM - Edit history (1)

(Edited to correct the spelling of pronunciation, because spelling can matter too.)

Somewhere along the line, somebody decided the the enterprise of opposing global fascism should be given a cute little name that rolls off the tongue. The fascists have taken that term and turned it into a negative, an epithet. They are very good at using words as weapons, and we meekly go along with the debate on their terms.

We must stop doing that. an-TEE-fuh sounds frivolous, like a mixed drink or something and does nothing to emphasize the key issue, which is fascism.

Please pronounce it the right way, which is AN-tie-FEH. Get it? We are AN-tie FEH-cism. Let the words work for us, not against us.