Opinions on "Antifa"?

[beachjustice]

100. I'm not saying there's never a time to fight with violence.

I'm not sure how much the situation that lead to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany is comparable to what we have today. Perhaps you're right, but there was quite a lot of street violence in the Weimar republic especially between communists and right wing parties. To my understanding there was no clear sense of any one faction being "more in the ethical wrong" for violence than another. Whereas at the present, every time someone on our side protesting is bloodied or killed, the country, industry leaders, and even politicians and intellectuals on the right, immediately rally behind us and disavow the bigots.

We want to maintain and perpetuate that dynamic. It forces all decent people on the right to reckon with the fact that people on the political right have more of a problem than others. It does more to keep hearts and minds on our side than punching someone (outside of self-defense) even thought that might feel deserved and useful at the moment. I'm absolutely an advocate for being prepared to defend oneself, but otherwise, all things considered at present, I don't think it serves us to instigate violence against Nazis.