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No anti-fascist calls themselves antifa and being anti-fascist is the default state of being for every single person who is not a fascist.
'Antifa' is a fabricated scare term prompted by the right-wing elite's media influence campaign. It exists as a term in order to imply that there is some actual secret organization which can be presented as the boogey man to scare working-class people and/or to label as a terrorist organization so the elites in power can use the power of law enforcement to attack and jail their monied political opponents by claiming their association with or funding of a 'known domestic terror group'.
Anything saying 'antifa' on social media is either intentional propaganda or the ignorant masses propagating those same memes.
You need to read Antifa, a manual written by Mark Bray. You will be surprised with history. The real propaganda was the billionaire media that biased your opinion. No offense (unless you really skip skimming through the easily found online epub, in which case you'd be denying yourself the chance to grow and hence lose any respect I had for the human being you are ;)
Maybe in murica, but not in Germany
That's really not true. I've seen the term antifa (standing for anti-fascism) used plenty for many decades now.
We've had antifa spray tags in my school's walls.
It may seems obscure to some parts of the world but for those of us who suffered under fascism multiple times (south Europe) it's a very familiar phrase from a long time before trump become president.
In the US though he's absolutely correct. It's just not a term anyone but MAGAts use. This rule really is only gonna censor the people trying to fear monger, and not any actual "antifa members" because they don't exist.
Imagine seeing everything happening in the last year and still advocating for censorship jfc.
I'm not even a hardcore leftist by European standards and sometimes the mentality over there just buffles me.
Well, I guess that explains how easy it was to establish fascism in the US.
Antifa is, as far as I know, the US abbreviation for Anti Fascist Action. This was an organization founded in the eighties in the UK with decentralized local chapters with the ability to mobilize. They were out in the streets violently confronting the fascists. It died out in the late nineties
Copy cat groupings had started appearing in other European countries by that time. In Sweden, we called them AFA. The antifa logo I've seen in US media is the logo of Anti Fascist Action. But that's just my understanding.
I think the term antifa was originally just that- short for anti fascist. But it got hijacked and slandered and labeled teroor org. By entities that felt encouraged to do that.
But you're definitely right. Being an anti fascist is a default state of human being.
I’m right here. Your dear Aunt Tifa.
I really hope enough people know this.
Maybe Iran will put out a Lego video explaining it.
"Iran, if you're listening..."
Antifa only really existed after Trump won in 2016.
Antifa is as old as fascism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism
Yes, Anti-fascism is old.
My point is that the specific word "Antifa" has only been used since 2016 in the US.
Definetly used world wide at least since the 80s and yes basically meaning anti fascist.
yes, but it wasn't being weaponised as a brand, is what they're getting at, until 2016. Before that it wasn't being used like a cudgel.
Then they should have written that, instead of "Antifa only existed after Trump won".