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174. Again, you clearly have a pretty limited knowledge of antifa

Why would you think that erasing racist graffiti or removing racist propaganda wouldn't be a typical activity of Antifa direct action? It happens a lot.

White power/nationalist groups often recruit in poor neighborhoods. For instance, they may put up graffiti, or paper houses, or put stickers on road signs, or whatever. Antifa groups come along and remove that graffiti or cover it up. They remove white power stickers from road signs. They put up anti-racist flyers (or graffiti) of their own. It's plenty common. It's not violent.

White power/nationalist groups often recruit and organize on internet bulletin boards. Antifa groups and individuals troll the boards to disrupt. They identify users and out them as racists. It's plenty common. It's not violent.

White power/nationalist groups and individuals recruit at music and speaking venues. Antifa groups organize protests to call public attention to the agenda of the speakers and/or the willingness of the venue to provide them with a platform. It's plenty common. It's not violence.

A protest is, by its very nature, a show of force. When white power groups organize rallies to show their force in communities across America, Antifa organize counter-protests. The counter-protest, too, is by its very nature a show of force. In most cases, these competing shows of force don't result in outright violence.