• uberrice@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Antifascism isn’t fascism, but Antifa, in a lot of public outings (where presumably only a minority of people go) behaves very fascist.

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      1 year ago

      “behaves very fascist”

      Yeah those evil fascist protestors doing violence, waving American flags, demanding strict social hierarchies, with ultra-right-wing views

      /s

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            1 year ago

            Reasons why I think Antifa is fascist:

            1. they paint people they don’t like as ‘Nazis’ - just like right wing fascists like to paint everyone they don’t like as a ‘jew’
            2. they endorse violence against these ‘Nazis’
            3. they self-radicalize by echo-chambering, removing themselves farther and farther from the “real world”

            Do you not agree with these statements?

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              1 year ago

              Are they also ultra-nationalist, ultra-right-wing, and in favor of strict social hierarchies? There’s more to fascism than just being mean to people you don’t like

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                1 year ago

                According to Britannica:

                Fascism : a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government

                While what I described is not centrally controlled by a dictator (and anyone claiming that Antifa was centrally controlled is a nutcase, I agree), the way Antifa as a collective behaves does try to “control the lives of people, not allowing them to disagree with them” - at least in my opinion. You’re free to have your own.