LogFAQs > #926203394

Are we gonna ignore how the police support the fascist groups targeting Antifa?

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/10/15/23710274/members-of-patriot-prayer-brought-loaded-firearms-to-roof-before-august-protest

https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2019/02/14/texts-between-portland-police-and-patriot-prayer-ringleader-joey-gibson-show-warm-exchange/

Right wing pundits and media have painted Antifa as some violent hate group by taking a few events and lumping the entire movement under them. All Antifa is is a movement that opposed fascist movements, and do so mainly through raising awareness and exposing these groups.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2017/anticom-discord-server-shows-months-neo-nazi-incitement/

(Also feel free to look up your local Antifa, you'll probably see a lack of calls for violence and just calling out fascist speakers)

Yes, we should decry any violent individuals who attack or vandalize otherwise innocent people/businesses, but those individuals do not represent the movement as a whole, which consists of a number of political ideologies united for the singular goal of stomping fascism before it festers. Violence against these actual fascists is justified as a form of preemptive self defense: their goal is intrinsically and historically violent towards innocents. They are not allies or victims, they're a virus that needs to be quarantined and left to die off.

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