Nick Szabo  🔑

ya, people always think "it will never happen her"

Antifa. It is starting to happen here.

Lots of Dylan Roofs for every balaclava clad lefty. There were literally 10x violent incidents including church bombings by self described right wing nationalists in the US in the last 4 years. It’s all wrong and bad, whatever the political allegiance, but....facts.

You say "facts", but describing "Dylan Roof", a white supremacist" as "right wing" (a label he did not himself use) is not a "fact", it's a labeling that is entirely contradictory to the polling data. Only around 1-2% of self-described right wingers show support for violence.

On the other hand, polls show left-wing support for Antifa anywhere from 9% to as high as 24%. This has been consistent over time for years. But only in this decade has anyone collected data even suggested that the right wing committed more violence in any given decade.

Wrong analogy. It’s hard to talk about anti-fa since there’s a lack of organization and clear ideology, but a statement of support for it by an average American doesn’t mean they’re condoning violence. To some crazy lefties, support for the NRA is supporting school shootings.

To say that there is a lack of clear ideology with Antifa is absurd given that they've been operating for close to a century. When people say they support such an organization with a several generation history of violence, that's not a stretch at all.

Consider that the republican and democratic parties switched places on many issues over a century. You honestly think there's a clear and consistent "antifa" philosophy? If so, I have no idea what it is, and I'd wager neither do the participants.