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>>please allow us common folk to use shorthand "Antifa" as the collection of bad people assaulting, intimidating and vandalizing somehow coincidentally in 50 cities.
No. Because to you anything you don't like becomes Antifa that way and it loses its meaning - and deliberately. Y'all want to throw up a unified bogeyman where there is none, and make it leftist. Well fascism is a far right thing, and you have been bathing in proto-fascism for a while. A good section of Antifa activists are not liked by liberals.
So no. Unless you want us to call you fascist. - Lapsody
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Let's see, "Those thugs dressed in black helmets and body armor who can be seen daily intimidating, attacking, burning, assaulting, trespassing and destroying" just torched 15 police cars in Seattle.
Nah, that is just too long to use in a sentence and so I will continue to use the term Antifa for the thugs and agitators such as those at GWU who called for the beheading of school administrators.
And I can and do use the shorthand, Antifa, without asserting there exists some organization with that name. Aggregate terms are used all the time to point out the group whose bad behavior you are about to describe, liberals use terms like racist, cultist, Nazi, and white supremacist all the time to heap contempt on the people with whom they disagree - such as we patriotic Trump supporters.
I use Antifa the same way - to group a bunch of bad guys, dressed in black, carrying bear spray and umbrellas, whether they are busy breaking into buildings, tearing down statues, or in smaller groups harassing or beating up people on street corners.
So get used to it, or call me a fascist if you must. No big deal, I have been called worse.
