Antifa is violent toward cops and journalists. How is that better? Where are people defending the proud boys? |
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This is a thread about Antifa at a Proud Boys rally. Antifa does not exist in a vacuum. But you resist every opportunity to speak out against the Proud Boys, just like you are now. That is defending the Proud Boys. |
You are openly defending antifa. |
How so? |
Exactly! |
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Antifa in Portland telling police to kill themselves. |
It’s on video. If you think antifa is better than anyone else, you are a loon. |
Agreed. The source of their funding must be investigated. |
Get a load of the tat on the right shoulder of the topless guy! What’s wrong with these people? |
Got nothing to say against the equally violent right wing militia groups? |
THIS man with the tats! |
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Antifa protesters couldn’t find any fascists at Unite the Right — and harassed the press instead
https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/08/13/antifa-protesters-couldnt-find-any-fascists-at-unite-the-right-and-harassed-the-press-instead/%3foutputType=amp When a Washington Post reporter tried to interview the antifascists, they refused to speak. When he followed them up the street with his cellphone camera, one of them shoved a black umbrella into his lens and several shouted: “No photos!” This can harm us,” one of the protesters said, just before someone swatted the reporter’s iPhone out of his hand and threw it into the middle of the street. The reporter and camera were fine, but the incident was not isolated. Again and again, small groups of antifa members harassed, threatened and occasionally jostled reporters. The activists demanded not to be photographed as they marched down public streets — even as many of them hoisted their own cellphone cameras and staged their own photo ops. |
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F—ing camera fairy, f— off!” an antifascist screamed at a Post videographer as he followed the group through the city.
“He’s got a camera!” a woman yelled from the crowd, pointing. “Get that camera!” Blocks away, a photographer in a rain poncho was recorded being chased through an alley, while a woman berated other journalists. “You’re betraying us!” she yelled. “Are you going to report how many people they tear-gassed?” At the same event, NPR reporter Tim Mak watched antifa protesters lob fireworks and bottles at the police separating them from the white supremacists. Then he ducked as someone whipped an egg at his head. On Saturday evening, after university students who organized the day’s rally against white supremacy had left, NBC reporter Cal Perry posted video of a man with a kerchief around his neck, screaming, “Snitch ass news b—–!” and slapping his TV crew’s phone away. The next day, a reporter for the local ABC Station WTVD shared video of antifa members shoving objects into his cameraman’s lens — then cutting his microphone cord. https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/08/13/antifa-protesters-couldnt-find-any-fascists-at-unite-the-right-and-harassed-the-press-instead/%3foutputType=amp |
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Antifa: Scope and Tactics:
Today's antifa argue they are the on-the-ground defense against individuals they believe are promoting fascism in the United States. However, antifa, who have many anti-police anarchists in their ranks, can also target law enforcement with both verbal and physical assaults because they believe the police are providing cover for white supremacists. They will sometimes chant against fascism and against law enforcement in the same breath. While some antifa use their fists, other violent tactics include throwing projectiles, including bricks, crowbars, homemade slingshots, metal chains, water bottles, and balloons filled with urine and feces. They have deployed noxious gases, pushed through police barricades, and attempted to exploit any perceived weakness in law enforcement presence. Away from rallies, they also engage in “doxxing,” exposing their adversaries’ identities, addresses, jobs and other private information. This can lead to their opponents being harassed or losing their jobs, among other consequences. Members of the alt right and other right wing extremists have responded with their own doxxing campaigns, and by perpetuating hateful and violent narratives using fake “antifa” social media accounts. https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/who-are-the-antifa |