Antifa
Antifa (short for Anti-Fascist Action) are a loosely-organized far-left movement predominantly made up of radical socialists, anarchists, and communists, who's stated goal is the suppression of fascism, neo-nazism, white supremacy and other far-right ideologies in North America and Europe through the use of violence and physical/vocal harassment. They're widely considered the left-wing counterpart of the Alt-Right with many expressing anti-American, xenophobic and communistic opinions. The group gained wider recognition during the protests against Donald Trump, in which Antifa members present were re-vandalizing, fighting, and causing property damage. Antifa has received criticism from the American and worldwide population on both sides of the political spectrum for their use of violent crimes to achieve ends.
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| “ | The job of the anti-fascist is to make [fascists] too afraid to act publicly and to act as volunteer targets for their hate and attacks which might keep them from thinking about burning down the mosque in their neighborhood. | „ |
| ~ Mark Bray, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. |
Events
January 20th, 2017
On the day Donald Trump was inaugurated into office, over dozens of Antifa individuals blocked pedestrians from attending the Inauguration. They smashed in windows, and over 100 of them were arrested.
February 3rd, 2017
On February 3rd, 2017, when Donald Trump was recently elected. Milo Yiannopolous was invited to speak at the Berkeley University in Berkeley, California. However, Antifa arrived to shut it down. They torched cars, broke windows and doors, and wounded numerous people, a few noticeable victims of their actions were two females, one was bludgeoned over the head with flagpoles, and the other was pepper sprayed in the face wearing a "Make Bitcoin Great Again," hat. There was also graffiti spotted during the riots there that stated "Liberals get the bullet too", meaning that Antifa also has a hatred for Liberals.
April 15th, 2017
During a free speech rally, in Berkeley, Antifa showed up to try and shut it down. Claiming it was in the name of hate speech, most of them were armed with m-80s, and they threw them at the free speech side. The police were ordered by the mayor of Berkeley, Jesse Arreguin to stand down.
2018
Antifa made an appearance in Berkeley, opposing a "No To Marxism" rally.
2019
Antifa confirmed they would be using acid attacks on people.
Reporter Andy Ngo was attacked and beaten at a protest in Portland, Oregon on June 29. The Antifa members responsible then attacked and beat several other protesters, including one man in which they cracked his skull with a Crowbar.
On August 4, Connor Betts, an Antifa supporter, shot and killed 9 people in Dayton, Ohio, just 13 hours after the El Paso shooting. However it is believed that he was motivated by misogyny rather than politics.
In August 2019, Antifa made another appearance in Berkeley opposing a rally by the Proud Boys. The police stepped in to try and prevent violence, but several skirmishes occurred, including an attack on a bus full of Proud Boys during which one of the Proud Boys was hit with a hammer, and an incident in which a man was beaten and pepper-sprayed. 13 people were arrested.
The Democratic Party headquarters in Oregon was vandalized by Antifa members after one of their members had been killed in a supposedly hit-and-run incident.
2020
According to several politicians and several of the peaceful George Floyd protesters, Antifa were responsible for the riots and the looting.
During the unrest in Kenosha, Illinois in the aftermath of the shooting of Jacob Blake, Antifa activity in the area spiked. During one Antifa protest, Kyle Rittenhouse (who is pro-police) fatally shot two protesters, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, during an altercation. It is unknown if the two people killed were part of Antifa.
During a Trump rally in Portland, Antifa member Michael Reinoehl shot and killed a Trump supporter named Aaron Danielson. Reinoehl was killed by US marshals several days later.
Relations with groups
Affiliations/Allies
- Floyd Rioters (Implied)
- Black Supremacists (Sometimes)
Enemies
- National Alliance
- White Power Movement
- Ku Klux Klan
- Neo Nazis
- Neo Confederates
- White Supremacists
- Proud Boys
Villainy:
Here are the list of Justified villainy of ANTIFA according to Rotten Websites wiki.]
- They are the most extreme variant of the already toxic SJW's. They end up doing more harm to not only to other people but also to the country of America itself.
- They’re one of the main reasons why the BLM movement has gotten worse, more violent, and has had their own reputation destroyed.
- Despite being anti fascist they never allow any conservatives or even liberals that don't agree with them in their group, which makes them extremely biased against Centre-Rights/Right-Wing.
- They even go as far as attacking conservatives or liberals by doxxing or worse killing them.
- They take their hatred of Trump way too far. Even go as far as supporting a plan to stage the coup on Trump. Even if you don't like him or any other politician, there is a reason why democracy is here.
- Double Standards:
- They called out the KKK for burning people yet their methods are not very different.
- Despite going against white supremacy they sometimes support black supremacy.
- They can't handle your opinions if you disagree with them. They’ll make false accusations out of you being a white supremacist/nationalist without proof.
- They give the centre-left a bad name.
- They worship communism and/or anarchism like a god and does not understand its flaws.
- They also want to make the United States a communist nation at best or at worst a state of civil war.
- Their methods of "fighting fascism" border on domestic terrorism. They burn down buildings, and even kill people.
- They along with Black Lives Matter set fire to an apartment that supposedly still had people inside.
- And the mainstream media still defends them and hide their riots and terrorism under the guise of "peaceful protesting."
- Sadly, the United States Department of Homeland Security, despite proof that the Antifa are doing damage to buildings and killing people, don't see them as terrorists.
- They usually only attack unarmed people and not in self-defense, which means even if they were to fight actual fascists, most of them would be insanely incompetent at it.
- They are so bad that even most left-wingers despise them.
- The worst aspect of them is how powerful they are. Not only the mainstream media defends them as shown in point 9. But some online community's support them as well.
- Another worst detail is that whoever they voted for/supported, they will betray them later on.
- They were supportive of Biden, only to betray Biden.