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Lokarin posted...

If being against fascism makes you a terrorist doesn't that mean the terrorized ARE fascists?

What? First, they're not "against fascism," and they're fascist-friendly when they happen to agree with the fascism being promoted. Second, and more importantly, a stated objective isn't what makes a group terrorist or not, it's the tactics they choose to employ.

Antifa pretty explicitly tries to use violence to achieve its political and social objectives, which is textbook terrorism:

the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

What they CLAIM to believe doesn't really enter the discussion, because that's not what makes them terrorists, it's the fact that they openly advocate and rely on violence to achieve those objectives. However, there's a pretty big dissonance between what they claim to believe and what they actually believe, although you can argue that there's no real central belief structure, it's just violence to suppress the general public and stifle open discourse, which is very closely tied with fascism and other strongarm regimes.

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