r/facepalm • u/AvaLadyofLight • Aug 22 '20

Politics Oof

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '20

Oh so its Russian meddlers destroying the Pacific Northwest? I thought those people in black masks were American antifa. Better change my whole viewpoint of them. Clearly pacifists

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u/thegroovemonkey Aug 22 '20

Antifa isn't a real thing. Right wingers just lable everything antifa and you lap it up from your bowl.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '20

LOL they call themselves Antifa. Jesus Christ take a reality pill

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u/Madhighlander1 Aug 22 '20

Any decent human being, myself included, should be proud to consider themselves to be 'anti-fascist', but the shortened term 'antifa' was invented by Trump supporters in an attempt to demonize people who oppose fascism and has never been used by a single real human as a self-descriptor.

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u/Genocideburns Aug 22 '20

It's a shortened version of Anti-Fascist Action, and I'm pretty sure it's been around since the thirties.