Antifa are officially domestic terrorists

[rogue06]

http://fox40.com/2017/09/01/departme...rist-violence/http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...nce-fbi-242235

Interesting to note that this assessment of antifa was made not under the Trump Administration but last year when Obama was president. But the Obama Administration kept it under wraps and it is only coming to light now.

[Sparko]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/28/do...-group-nambla/

OK liberals, defend antifa now.

[hedrick]

OK liberals, defend antifa now.

I'm not aware of mainstream liberals supporting antifa. They are in fact a threat to us, because they provide an excuse to claim that the left is as dangerous as the right. The data all disagree with that kind of false equivalence, but getting people to accept evidence isn't always easy.

[Darth Executor]

However all these liberal radical elements are something that really angers me, because they pretty much stole the light from the BLM movement.

BLM was founded by people who think black people should be allowed to beat white people into the ground without retaliation.

[Mountain Man]

BLM was founded by people who think black people should be allowed to beat white people into the ground without retaliation.

That's only because white people are inherently racist and deserve a good beating.

[mossrose]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/28/do...-group-nambla/

OK liberals, defend antifa now.

Their silence is deafening.

[Sparko]

I'm not aware of mainstream liberals supporting antifa. They are in fact a threat to us, because they provide an excuse to claim that the left is as dangerous as the right. The data all disagree with that kind of false equivalence, but getting people to accept evidence isn't always easy.

I was talking to Tassman and crew

[Zymologist]

This thread should be retitled "Department of Homeland Security and FBI now thoroughly Nazi, white supremacist."

[hedrick]

I was talking to Tassman and crew

The sermon at my rather liberal PCUSA church today was about victimization. It rejected antifa, and people on both sides who like to see themselves as victims when they aren't. (Of course there is actual discrimination and bullying out there, so there are some real victims.)

[hedrick]

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[rogue06]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/28/do...-group-nambla/

OK liberals, defend antifa now.

For quite some time the major gay rights groups marched arm-and-arm with NAMBLA. That long-term support of NAMBLA didn't hurt them.

[rogue06]

This thread should be retitled "Department of Homeland Security and FBI now thoroughly Nazi, white supremacist."

Which, truth be told, is exactly how many liberals would love to spin it but it appears the determination that antifa is a terrorist group was made when the Obamessiah was still POTUS.

[Zymologist]

Which, truth be told, is exactly how many liberals would love to spin it but it appears the determination that antifa is a terrorist group was made when the Obamessiah was still POTUS.

Clearly, Putin's influence runs deep.

[rogue06]

I'm not aware of mainstream liberals supporting antifa.

The same can be said about mainstream conservatives and groups like the KKK. No matter how many times a conservative denounces them as scum reporters nevertheless continue to pepper them with demands to repudiate them (pretending that they haven't already done so repeatedly). OTOH, liberals are virtually never asked to repudiate groups like antifa or questioned about the communist party endorsing them.

It's almost like the MSM practices a double standard.

[hedrick]

The same can be said about mainstream conservatives and groups like the KKK. No matter how many times a conservative denounces them as scum reporters nevertheless continue to pepper them with demands to repudiate them (pretending that they haven't already done so repeatedly). OTOH, liberals are virtually never asked to repudiate groups like antifa or questioned about the communist party endorsing them.

It's almost like the MSM practices a double standard.

I don't suspect most conservatives of supporting the KKK.

By definition extremists are extreme, i.e. not representative of the mainstream.

I'm not worried that conservative Christians are part of the KKK. But I am concerned by the extreme right. There's pretty objective data distinguishing their danger from the extreme left, though if antifa grows that could change.

I'm particularly concerned that the extreme right may be pulling in some whites who in the past wouldn't have been extremists, but are starting to buy into the grievance culture. The grievance culture is a danger on the left as well. I see one member of my denomination on Facebook making bizarre statements (though not members of my congregation). But so far they don't seem to be in danger of being involved in anything violent. Also, remember that our models tend to be people like MLK, while the right tends to be into guns.