Why would protesters on the left wear masks?

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81. Antifa is not bloc; bloc is not antifa.

Us olds can still be against fascism. For me, it's now stuff like tracking online trolls, and using the built structures of the law in service of the defenseless. An example, not mine: Someone followed a twitter troll to 4chan, then through a couple white nationalist message boards, and then got to their personal facebook page. This waste of molecules had been abusing the step-children and bragging about it on the WN board. With that correlation (images posted on the FB page matched to the ones on the WN board), there was a credible threat to the welfare of the children to make a report. Which got the kids transferred to the other parent, who was not WN, and got visitation made supervised.

It takes thick skin and good computer security, but antifa is about 70% intel work, 20% advocacy, and about 10% bloc tactics. It's a lot like amateur cold case work and missing persons work, except Nazis are still typing (usually badly.)