To The Atlantic, Media and Others Who Get Antifa Twisted

[Warpy]

79. The Atlantic took a hard right in the 80s

Before that, they'd been an OK competitor for Harper's, another monthly magazine for people who can read. They've been apologists for the worst of right wing boilerplate, although expressed in better English than the usual run of right wing crap magazines and newspapers.. They adopt a veneer of fairness but they are not fair, not in the least.

In any case, European antifascism is different. Crowds protesting right wingers trying to parade through towns chant "ANTIFA!" but it tends to mean something different and US groups shouldn't feel that much solidarity with them. Europeans avoid violence. Our groups seek it out. US Antifa has more in common with the anarchist Black Bloc than with any antifascism movement. They're not into solidarity with any of us, they're into breaking fascist faces.

The problem is that we have a government and major media who blame all violence on the left and completely ignore the massive violent outrages committed by the far right. They will do this while young punks spoiling for a fight give them someone on the left to blame and there will always be young punks spoiling for a fight, I'm afraid.