August 12 was at least an order of magnitude more complex than anything we've seen in decades. We talk about Skokie... this was bigger.
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The antifascists in PDX and Berkeley who deal with this more regularly know how dangerous just a couple dozen Nazis with 1 LE agency can be.
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What we saw on August 12 is what happens when that scales beyond a couple dozen. Imagine if it scaled more.
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When I said, "this is the end of America" that's what I was seeing. I was seeing what would happen if we couldn't contain the next step.
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Berkeley and PDX antifa keep their movements from scaling to what we saw in Cville. What they do saves lives.
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August 12 in Charlottesville was a natural extension of what that can be if it grows. They picked Charlottesville as a "soft target."
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Heather Heyer died because the alt-right specifically picked Cville as a good place to kill people.
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"Both sides are bad" isn't just dangerous rhetoric. It masks the issue of what happens if the alt-right scales.
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The actions in Portland, Berkeley, Seattle, etc. aren't about antifascists getting their rocks off punching Nazis.
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It's that these folks *know* what happens when 2 dozen Nazis becomes 600.
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Nothing stopped Joey Gibson from speaking at Waterfront in Portland on Sunday. He had a shitload of police protection. He didn't show.
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It's because the right wants violence. And if no one is there to counter them, and to stop the state from enabling that, it grows.
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Charlottesville showed the world what happens if we let it get that large. We can't let it get that large ever again. Done.
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