Amazing how "Antifa" isn't actually an organization but is somehow designated as "terrorist group," while the KKK is an actual white supremacist "christian" terrorist organization that has mass murdered thousands of Black people and some white allies across two centuries and virtually every state, and is still not labeled a terrorist organization.

A reminder that the system isn't broken, it's working as intended.

@QasimRashid Oath Keepers and Proud Boys are actual organizations, but aren't deemed terrorist organizations?
@QasimRashid One of the ways it's clever is that since there is no Antifa organization, nobody seems to have standing to sue about it. There are no staff lawyers at Antifa HQ for the President of Antifa to send into court. The more the administration fights imaginary shadows, the more they can claim imaginary victories and push a narrative that nobody can oppose them, which makes real people more afraid to try.
@wrosecrans @QasimRashid Also, they are free to just claim that someone they don't like belongs to this fictitious group as a way to brand them a terrorist.
@wrosecrans @QasimRashid not that I’m a lawyer, but I wonder if this means that anyone has standing to sue if the government claims “antifa” as their excuse for maltreatment. At least this argument is what any good judge should allow
@tsyum @wrosecrans @QasimRashid I suppose anyone has standing who can show proof of antifascist merits. Participation in demonstrations, letters to the editor, social-media posts... shouldn't be hard.
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@QasimRashid They have quarters in my home town No one says Klan directly, they're more the proud boys now, the sons of the Confederacy Same people different names
It's an open secret. Everyone outside of these groups know what they are. People will get pissed if you speak out against them, been followed home more than once after telling them off for talking nasty in my store They think me being white means I'm ok with them.
I moved states and still landed in them. It's disgusting
@QasimRashid The people deciding if the KKK is a terrorist organizations are most likely members of said organization.

@oberstenzian While they should, as members of a democratic government and/or legislature, rather be "members" of "Antifa".

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@QasimRashid since ANTIFA is not easily defined, the flip side is it allows the Adminiatration to define anyone as ANTIFA.
@QasimRashid Also, the KKK has Grand Wizards and established Klan leaders. Antifa, as it's an ideology, does not.
@QasimRashid The fundamental problem is that we are ALLOWING our representatives and elected officials to make these designations for society, when it's society that should be making them for the governments.
@QasimRashid that's the status quo most "libs" & "centrists" Schumer & Jeffries types wants to go back to stop fascism from hurting "their feelings", totally ignoring the fact that bunch of the country was already living in fear for centuries.

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With a take like that, you could turn Mastodon into your own little outrage farm. I mean, it's not like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are members of THE very minority groups targeted by white supremacists, and have thusly lived their entire lives intimately aware of this acute threat targeting them simply for being born... That'd just make too much sense, unlike your take.

Your English is shit, but name-dropping the US House & Senate Minority Leaders (both Dems) like they're the problem 🤔 sus. Last I checked, "the libs" didn't designate Antifa a "terrorist organization." Infact, they vocally defended it during the 2020 election campaign, and after taking office Biden directed the Feds to focus on the actual terrorists instead. From 2021 to 2023, a bunch of white terror groups went to prison, except for their leaders who were already paid FBI Informants like Enrique Tarrio (PB).

Also, the United States hasn't quite existed for "centuries." Only 249 years (presently struggling to make it to 250). The KKK is as old as the "Greek system" (college Fraternities), an odd "tradition" carried over from our British colonizers, just like slavery, segregation, and the death penalty. That's were this fundamentally Christian hooded order originated, taking-up slave patrols that became the first local "law enforcement" body of this young Republic, south of the Mason-Dixon. Not as young as other major Republics, like France and Germany, but young nonetheless.

Then there's the Texas Rangers who did their own KKK-like activities before being legitimized by the Lonestar state. One example demonstrating that not every early American white terror group fell under the umbrella of the late-bloomers known as the KKK. They do dress an awful lot like the Vatican and Archbishops of the Holy Roman Empire (Germanic): robes, cone-shaped hoods, burning-crosses, and all. Ain't that something.

Hope this helps!
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@QasimRashid "Antifa" is a mind fuck for the reich wing that just keeps on giving and giving and giving... Be like Antifa. Fuck em.

@QasimRashid ... hence must be destroyed, since it appears to be immune to reform?

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Just an additionnal information : The Proud Boys were designated as a terrorist group in Canada.

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