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DNY's avatar

My go to comment about all things Antifa: You're wearing black shirts and using street violence against your political opponents. Are you sure you're the anti-Fascists?

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They're more numerous than one would think and fairly organized though not in any sort of top down vertical way. I went to a few protests in Raleigh, NC simply observing and was shoved immediately for simply standing on the side of the street, in my pink bicycling spandex, and filming their march. I was called a racist white piece of shit, a fascist, a gentrifier etc. The local news affiliate interviewed me due to the physical altercation and I stupidly gave them my name. Since I own my home antifa used my name from WRAL and found my home vandalizing it with the words "cracker" "fuck you die whitey" and "racist narc."

I never did anything to these people other than show up to their protests to observe them in objective manner as our local news didn't seem to be as critical of their tactics often leaving out their more violent acts.

At one point a photog from the N&O the major paper yelled at me, "you're making our job hard" I guess my mere presence causing such angst and vitriol amongst the protestors wasn't the narrative they wanted.

I have voted D my whole life, but the cognitive dissonance surrounding the left and Antifa is astonishing. Extremism of any type, left or right, is dangerous, but from the evidence I've seen leftist extremism is currently causing more damage to society.

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