October 4, 2023 - Celtic fans unfurl an enormous antifascist banner while singing a variation of Bella Ciao at the start of the game against SS Lazio in Glasgow.
And to think in the US we let the phrase "antifa" ride a current of ambiguity and menace.
With the literal "fa" right in our faces.
(https://www.tumblr.com/blackcat-brazil/730474494583537664?source=share)
Now the GQP is really going to be frightened; AntiFa is international & there’s a banner to prove it.
Alas there is real and ever growing danger in US from the Fa!
Scotland has a solid record of modern antifascism.
that's badass 😍
That's a general American stress on the first vowel. I don't think antifa as a label has much currency outside the US.
But then there's none so able to use iconography than a group of football supporters.
(edited given I'd forgotten that the flag actually says antifascist).
I think calling it "designed" is too much. It's just laziness. Can't be bothered to read two wikipedia articles or listen to an actual leftist and find out what the heck it means.
I make a point of saying "anti fascist" even if it's written antifa. Just makes the people maligning sound a lot less harmless.
@futurebird Beautiful. I love you Scotland.
We should stop using the word "antifa" altogether because it's playing right into the far right's hands. "Antifacist" does not lend itselft to ambiguity
@futurebird I'm a bit confused; it looks to me like "Antifa" *is* somewhat ambiguous, even without the disinformation.
It can mean, as most in (what my instance shows me of) this thread say, any opposition to fascism.
It can also mean a political movement that, while not a formal organization, is its own thing not fully synonymous with other anti-fascist movements.
The uninitiated could even be forgiven for thinking the "Antifa International" social accounts are official or quasi-official.
@futurebird Though, to be fair, a quick check of Wikipedia should take care of that last misconception. And the first two aren't *that* different, and anyway neither is anything close to being a terrorist organization.
The disinfo is, to be clear, disinfo. Another case of the right wing's weaponization of semantic satiation, saying a word over and over again until it loses all meaning.
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