@autonomysolidarity
The word "ANTIFA" is the enemy's word. I refuse to use it. I am ANTIFASCIST.

I once heard a right-wing commentator tell his audience the word antifa meant Anti-Family.

I notice newspaper and media use the word antifa instead of antifascist.

I will NEVER use the word "antifa". I will ALWAYS force them to use the word Antifascist.

Are we really this lazy? The word is ANTIFASCIST.

@clintruin
What?
First time I hear/read s.o. stating "Antifa" as an enemy's word 😅

Maybe the word is used different, where you come from?
In Germany (and as I know also in some other European countries) "Antifa" is a self-designation. Here it has a long history:
It was used already by the "Antifaschistische Aktion" around 1930 as an abbreviation of their own name.

Latest since the 1980s "antifa" became a commom self-designation and/or part of the name of (mainly autonomous) antifascist groups.

Antifa is also a common abbreviation of the term Antifaschismus, but more it is used as term for groups or the movement.
So members of the Antifa are all antifascists, but not all antifascists are member of the Antifa 😉

So in Germany it's not at all an enemy's word (but of course right wingers are trying to defame and criminalize Antifa here, too).

@an_believable
I can't speak to German usage or German antifascists. Obviously that is an enormous topic.

I can speak to North American usage. In North America, as I've stated, the word is being used to confuse and distract. This is why I feel the word has taken on negative connotations, in English, in North America.

As stated above, if a fascist can use the word to to tell millions of Americans the word means anti-family...see what I'm saying?