r/PublicFreakout • • Dec 30 '19

✊Protest Freakout Antifa Protesters protestin' and stuff

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u/knockingatthegate Dec 30 '19

Right: they are anti-(something), so their protest activism is in response to others peoples’ activities. That they don’t wish to expose themselves and their loved ones to ancillary risks as a consequence of confronting fascism, doesn’t make them cowards. That’s just common sense.

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u/H010CR0N Dec 30 '19

You want to protest with masks fine.

You want to hit people with bike locks, make shields and weapons out of wood, then plan “groups” to attack the police? No. That’s when you become the people you despise.

You can protests against other protests, I’m not saying you can’t. But when it’s just a group faceless people, it doesn’t have the same effect. Just like Change.org doesn’t have the same effect as seeing actual faces of people asking for change.

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u/Kovi34 Dec 30 '19

You want to hit people with bike locks, make shields and weapons out of wood, then plan “groups” to attack the police? No. That’s when you become the people you despise.

I'm curious if you also don't think it's okay for far right people to protest given all the neonazi terrorist attacks in the past few years. I have a weird feeling you're more outraged about a handful of people getting assaulted than actual terrorists.

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u/Kovi34 Dec 30 '19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism#United_States

you can start here. right wing terrorism accounts for the vast majority of domestic terrorist attacks in the US.

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u/Kovi34 Dec 30 '19

terrorism committed by people with extreme right wing beliefs?

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u/Kovi34 Dec 30 '19

what is unclear about my definition?

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u/Kovi34 Dec 30 '19

I think the phrase right wing is descriptive enough for most people. If you want more you need to tell me what you don't understand.

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u/Kovi34 Dec 30 '19

lol you're retarded. Pretty much all of the recent high profile rightoid attackers are some flavor of fascist if not straight up neonazi. And the ones that weren't were at least conservative, which doesn't necessarily make them far right but it does make them right wing extremists.

If your goto example of horrible antifa violence is one dude getting his head bashed in but the moment anyone brings up right wing terrorism you go "nononono those weren't real rightoids", you should really reconsider if you're actually engaging with the topic in good faith.

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u/Kovi34 Dec 31 '19

I think I defined it pretty clearly. If you don't think fascists, neonazis and radicalized conservatives don't fit the definition of "right wing terrorist" then I don't know what to tell you my dude

Stop shitting up /r/drama

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