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Originally Posted by LBloom
On the unfortunate occasions that I've encountered alt-right publications, they're always complaining about a group called "Anti-Fa," which apparently is some group that organizes protests against them (them being the alt-right). As far as I can tell, this Anti-Fa group either does not exist or is EXTREMELY marginal. Am I wrong about this?
For example, I live in Michigan and looked at the Michigan Anti-Fa facebook page. It is literally ~90% comments from alt right types expressing their hatred.
not to derail, but to explain:
in germany, the antifa (= antifaschistische aktion, a concept dating back to 1933) isnt one specific group, but rather
a self-given general term for radical-left groups protesting against nazis/g20/gentrification/whatever.
(german) alt-right nowadays calls every leftist/anti-racist protest "antifa", meaning
all protestors, no matter if they are radical-left/green/social-democratic or liberal-centrist.
so the term went from a radical-left-concept (groups working in alliance to be more effective/while this concept is of course still up to date) to a generalized label of the political enemy used by the alt-right.
so "antifa" isnt one specific group.
Last edited by skudroc; 08-12-2017 at 07:54 PM.
Reason: didnt see zikzaks post :((