Wait… I thought “antifa” wasnt a group?

Antifa isn’t an organization.

Antifa is a loose classification which amounts to “Anyone who is antifascist and active”

Its may not fit the classification of “organization”, but it is a group, of sorts. They have a website… I mean, right?

They have a website… I mean, right?

No, because there’s no antifa ’organization’ that could credibly speak for the movement. It would be like finding a website for Pineapple-on-Pizza lovers and asking if that was ‘the’ Pineapple-on-Pizza-Lover website. The answer is no, because Pineapple-on-Pizza-Lover is describing an inclination, not membership in a group.

Or, for a more innate example, asking if “the Asians” have a website. Asian is descriptive of a (subjective, generally phenotypical) quality, not of membership in an organization. You could find any number of websites by Asian folk, or catering to Asian folk, but it’s not “The Asians have a website.”

Sure ok, pretty good words. The meaning and connotations of words are fluid are they not. Its beings claimed that “Antifa” is the same thing as being anti fascist, and im trying to make a case that it is not the same thing and shouldn’t be used interchangeably.

Look, I was fooled by that website… mud on my face. But “antifa” has a sort of civil disobedience optics attached to it. Its has imagery related to it, being sights of protest/riot and unrest type stuff.

On a personal note, I see the folks identifying as “antifa” and i dont particularly want to be associated with them at all. Although I do believe I am an anti-fascist. What is one to do.

But “antifa” has a sort of civil disobedience optics attached to it. Its has imagery related to it

And do you think it’s the anti-fascists or the fascists feeding you that imagery?

protest/riot

This is a violent false equivalence that really puts your bias on full display (not that every other thing you said didn’t already do that). And when I say “violent,” I don’t just mean the scale of the false equivalence, I mean it’s actually destructive to society to conflate these two things. Fox News got you bad huh?

Yer an idiot… sorry