A protester walks with a pipe near graffiti in Berkeley, California on February 1, 2017. Violent protests erupted on February 1 at the University of California at Berkeley over the scheduled appearance of a controversial editor of the conservative news website Breitbart. / AFP / Josh Edelson (Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images)
In Dallas, a black nationalist activist shot and killed 5 police officers at a Black Lives Matter anti-police rally. Instead of condemning BLM, Barack Obama defended a racist hate group whose role model is Assata Shakur, a wanted black nationalist cop killer, at the funerals of the murdered officers.
The left killed civil rights and replaced it with black nationalism. The racial supremacism of black nationalism that killed those officers is everywhere. Ta-Nehisi Coatesand Ibram X. Kendi are lionized as brilliant thinkers instead of hateful racists, Amazon has ordered a black nationalist secessionist fantasy from Aaron McGruder and Showtime aired ‘Guerilla,’ a miniseries glamorizing Black Panther terrorism.
But racism is a two-way street. So is violence. Extremists feed into each other.
You can’t legitimize one form of racism without legitimizing all of them. The media may advance this hypocritical position. Obama used the shameful “reverse racism” euphemism that distinguishes between black and white racism. But propaganda and spin don’t change the physics of human nature.
Either all racism is bad. Or all racism is acceptable.
Charlottesville is what happens when you normalize racism and street violence. Every normalization of extremism equally normalizes the extremism of the opposite side.
A civil society depends on a consensus. ‘Racism is bad’ is an example of such a consensus. If you normalize black nationalism, you will get more white nationalism. If you normalize leftist street violence against Trump supporters, you will also get more street violence against leftists.
Extremists want to eliminate the consensus of civil society. They want to destroy the idea that there’s any solution except violence through confrontations that show the helplessness of civil society.
That’s true of black nationalists and white nationalists, of Communists and Nazis, of Antifa and Vanguard, of the tankies and hipster Nazis of the Alt-Left and the Alt-Right. They’re a set of evil twins and when you unleash one, you unleash the other. Their real enemies aren’t each other, but everyone in the middle. The bourgeois normies who don’t want to replace society with their totalitarian nightmare.
Street violence raises the bar so that only the violent will participate in protests. If you “no platform” campus speakers, then the only speakers you get will be those willing to face bomb threats, arson, and physical assaults. If you fire people for their views, political activism becomes the province of anonymous trolls and unemployed street thugs. Extremism limits political discourse to extremists.
If Democrats really want to stop the rise of Neo-Nazi violence, there’s a very easy way. Stop normalizing black nationalism and the Alt-Left. End the racist witch hunts for white privilege. Make it clear that street violence is unacceptable and that racism is bad no matter who it comes from. Allow people you disagree with to express their views without trying to destroy their lives.
But that’s the opposite of what the Dems will do. They don’t want fewer Neo-Nazis; they want more of them. They don’t want fewer attacks like Charlottesville and Charleston. They want more of them.
The Dems have become an extremist party run by the radical left. Obama, Holder, and Lynch made common cause with black nationalist hate groups against civil society. It began when Obama defended the vile racism of Jeremiah Wright and concluded with DOJ organized race riots. DNC boss Tom Perez addresses La Raza and his deputy Keith Ellison is a veteran of the Nation of Islam.
The radical left wants to see Neo-Nazis gain prominence on the right to polarize the country. It wants to see our values and norms drowned in violence so that it has an excuse to eliminate free speech. It seeks to eliminate democracy by making the other side appear nightmarishly dangerous. It plots to impose a totalitarian system on the United States by empowering extremists to destroy the current system.
And their opposite numbers waving swastika flags want the same thing. The difference is that they don’t control the Republican Party the way that the Alt-Left and black nationalists control the Democrats.
Charlottesville is what happens when civil society fails. And those who set the terms of permissive discourse, who control the media, academia and social norms, are responsible for the failure.
Conservatives don’t have that kind of power. It’s the left that does.
Liberals, if there are any left on the left, can shut down racism and extremism. Or they can continue normalizing it until it’s mainstream and meaningless.
If you want to understand how we got to Charlottesville, the events at Evergreen State on the other side of the country are as good a place as any to start.
Evergreen’s President Bridges, the progressive who had called for safe spaces and allowed intersectional left-wing racists to terrorize his campus over their demands for racial segregation, was asked in an interview about accusations that he is a white supremacist.
Bridges replied that he doesn’t believe that he is a white supremacist. And then added, “It depends on what you mean by white supremacist.” He concedes, “I am a white person in a position of privilege.”
White privilege is how the intersectional left defines white supremacy. Any white people who aren’t allying with them to destroy Western civilization are defined as white supremacists. And even those who do, like Bridges, can always be accused of white supremacy for not destroying it hard enough.
When you spend enough time accusing everyone who doesn’t share your politics or even your race of racism, you make the term meaningless.
That’s what the left did over eight years of Obama. By the time the election rolled around, Hillary was defining all Trump voters as racists and sexists.
When you spend enough time crying wolf, eventually a real wolf appears. A real wolf showed up in Charlottesville.
The left spent eight years dismantling any meaningful definition of racism for political reasons. The practical effect of their actions was to eliminate social sanctions for actual racists.
And the real racists were happy to take advantage of the new climate.
When the left insists that everyone with white skin is part of white supremacy, that Shakespeare, Beethoven and all of Western civilization embody white supremacy, it’s echoing the actual talking points of white supremacy.
If you tell all Obama critics and Trump supporters that they’re racists often enough, some will decide that maybe they are racists.
If you tell a student who objects to racially segregated areas on campus that she is a white supremacist, she will be more likely to become one.
When you marginalize everyone to the right of you, some of the marginalized will accept the definition.
And when that happens, the left wins, the extremists win, and it becomes harder to maintain any kind of functioning civil society in which we settle conflicts through compromises rather than street violence.
Compromises are uncomfortable.
After the Civil War, the Union was preserved, but Southerners were allowed to honor their cause. It was an uncomfortable compromise, but it helped limit the violence from a conflict that had claimed the lives of 2% of the population. The Taliban campaign by black nationalists to tear down Confederate memorials was a deliberate effort at shattering a compromise that kept civil society working.
And that too led to Charlottesville.
Uncomfortable compromises are how we learn to live with each other. It means that there can be memorials of Robert E. Lee and streets named after Malcolm X. Tolerating people whose views we don’t like is one of the best ways to marginalize domestic extremists. When one set of extremists is empowered to wipe out the other, we end up with a civil war. Just ask Edmund Ruffin and John Brown.
Democrats claim a mandate from the “Right Side of History” to eliminate all the compromises. Catholic nuns must pay for abortions and birth control, Christian bakers and florists must participate in gay weddings, every white person must confess their racism, and every left-wing extremist must get their way.
That’s how you tear a society apart.
The Bill of Rights is an uncomfortable compromise. It says that we have to put up with people we don’t like. The Democrats, under the influence of the left, are rejecting that idea. But that goes both ways too.
You can have a liberal society or an illiberal one. But you can’t have a society that is selectively liberal when it comes to your bigotry, but illiberal of the bigotry of others, that believes you have the right to say anything you please without consequences, but that no one else does, that you can punch, but not be punched. That’s a totalitarian state. And the only way to realize it is through violence.
Democrats need to take an honest look at the street violence in Seattle, in Portland, in Berkeley and Charlottesville, and decide if this is what they really want. If they don’t, it’s time for them to stop normalizing left-wing extremism. If they do, then they are to blame for the next Dallas or Charlottesville.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
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DOMINATION
6 years ago
Muzzies are God’s outstanding success at making perfect manure! Any resemblance between Muzzies & Human Beings is purely coincidental!
And IRAN practices APARTHEID!
It requires women to sit at the BACK of the BUS! Or be stoned to death!
Let’s ask Amazon to take down the Iranian flags they sell because they are symbols of APARTHEID.
INSERT hypocritical liberal excuse to Muslim Nationalism here!
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TD
6 years ago
LIBERALS are struggling for relevance!
Liberals don’t want to fight Islamic Nationalists because it’s politically incorrect. Their party is also a failure when it comes to North Korea and the IRAN DEAL. So they have to manufacture a threat by going after Dead people like Robert E. Lee!
You are misguided to think Left/liberals / jihadis are struggling. Look at Eurabia , they are thriving and its patriots who are struggling to stay afloat.
End result is what is happening in sweden and other Left/liberal Run states/regions.
SWEDEN : Police begging for help, legal system collapsing. swedish police is so overworked, outnumbered that the Police chief is begging for help from his own govt http://bit.ly/2s75qAn
But they are too busy bringing in more jihadis and dumb Left/liberal women I heard are allowing themselves be their sex slaves so they won’t be killed !
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I thought Kek was their God, and Trump was only His High Priest? If you’re gonna troll, please troll with some modicum of accuracy, m’kay? Otherwise you just look stupid.
Benjamin Goldstein
6 years ago
It just occurs to me that liberals ask Trump to denounce the killer for his weird thinking (and I don’t know much about that), but they PRAISE the rest of the violence that occurred at Charlotteville. I see one article after another about the Confederacy and how one must not think good of them. That is to justify the violent thugs of the counterprotest at Charlotteville.
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AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago
Shouldn’t let them carry pipes and such, or wear masks.
It’s not just pipes they were carrying – they were also carrying knives, baseball bats, flame throwers, and jars of human waste of the type you flush down the toilet.
sta;e[oe
6 years ago
You can be racist without violating the Noahide Laws.
why would 1 want to? By choosing the Laws, 1 chooses to please G-d. &1 Knows He doesnt like His creation to hate each other. He doesnt. Actions (fruit) can be hated)
I don’t know WHY I just said it wasn’t breaking those laws. Sheesh. People can’t read anymore.
Buck
6 years ago
So CAIR is backing the leftist tearing down the confedret memorials and condemning slavery. The Muslim were and are today the greatest slave holders on earth. They and the left want to destroy America . They need to be stopped . May the LORD bless the United States of America and bless president Donald Trump and guide him in the right way. Buck Christian ??⚔?? 100% disabled Vietnam veteran right wing republican lifetime member NRA
Agreed. Simply by shooting off his mouth with irresponsible remarks, Obhammud set the racial maturity of this nation back a full fifty years. (Vietnam vet, US Navy, VQ-1).
It was mentioned Obama had put boys into girls’ bathrooms, showers, etc. – just as he put Muslims into entire neighborhoods and communities, and gang members, violent criminals, etc., into tony suburbs.
I was with you till you mentioned your lifetime membership in the NRA…
FACT: NRA does not support or approve of the No-Fly list as it prevents individuals from keeping or getting guns/weapons.If your name is on the No Fly list, as with due process in America, prove you are not guilty or the person identified on the No Fly List. Plain and simple….
NRA supports states who do not require weapons training and basic registration or background checks.
Then there is this NRA ego trip and a national media campaign saying “NRA IS AMERICA’S SAFEST PLACE” which is a very dangerous thought and theory notvto mention very misleading to the gullible America. In short, NRA is not about the Constitution but about enabling its own agenda alienating the Constitution. Former military and civilian are no longer members of NRA and are not interested in being one of their puppets. When Cecil the Lion was brutally murdered and slaughtered by that womb rejected American dentist, NRA womb rejects like that fa66ot azz Nugent supported tgd dentist proving that NRA is not about Constitution…..
I too am a career Soldier U.S. Army 81′-07. Iraq 04-06. I am a republican, not a conservative or a playmate of the tea party. I am anti muslim and anti liberal democrat, and support a geo-political alliance between the U.S., China, and Russia to rid the world of islam. I am also not a supporter to ridding America of Confederate history as that is racist intent to whine racism and slavery when in fact there are historical points under confederacy that shadows its own history. I am a supporter of animal rights and lover of animals.
President Trump, unlike that filthy racist obama, does not approve of racism unlike that filthy piece of human inconvenience obama and that two legged garbage can be calls a wife who spiked the punch bowl full of the racist juice…..
AMERICA needs to pull its head out of its own buttock, or we are finished….
Go your way Mac I don’t want you with me. I’m an old sick broken down old man and I doubt I’d make much of a speed bump to any one any more. But you. Can do what you want and I what I want. We don’t travel the same trail. A good team has like minded people and you and I ain’t. Buck Christian 100% disabled Vietnam veteran service connected right wing republican lifetime member NRA and friend to Israel
-1 st Air Cavlary Divison United States Army in Vietnam also was a professional trapper and Hunter for many many years worked for the USDA animal damage control as a animal damage control specialist ( government trapper and Hunter ).
” “NRA IS AMERICA’S SAFEST PLACE” ”
You’re right, NRA is not the safest space. That honor should go to Gun Owners of America, or Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, which are far more extreme in their support for the 2nd Amendment.
Buck
6 years ago
My kin
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago
How can anyone in their right mind witness a clash between two segments of the lowest of the low elements in a given society and then pick sides instead of condemning the entire lot of them?
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Patriotliz
6 years ago
Excellent article! Trump should go on the “attack” and put the Democrats in their place and on the defensive…:”Who are YOU to call me racist?” Democrat party is the party of slavery, the Confederacy, the party that filibustered Civil Rights legislation, the party that invented the KKK and who lionized former Klansman Sen. Robert Byrd and, it is the party that continues to enslave blacks in poverty in multiple major inner cities to sustain their voting block. It’s the Democrats who oversee the “killing fields” of Chicago and provide safe haven for criminal foreign invaders. It is also the party that embraces communism, champions Black and Hispanic racist organizations and are apologists for Islamic supremacist radicals and organizations w/ bigotry against Jews, Christians and all non-Muslims. Democrats are the party of “HATE-AMERICA-FIRST” who stoke division between different races and economic groups to create continuous civil unrest and warfare so that they can establish their Leftist Fascism to take away individual freedoms. It’s their hatred of America and policies to demolish the sovereignty of America by demonizing patriotic citizens and by going “Global” w/ open borders and illegal immigration.
Democrats are also the party of depravity, debasement, decadence, perversion, and criminality – the “if it feels good, do it in the road” mentality. Part and parcel of that strategy you laid out is the demolition of the Judeo-Christian moral standards by promoting, endorsing and sanctioning degenerate and promiscuous behavior, drug use (especially marijuana), homosexuality and even transgenderism (the last two being at their zenith under Obama); besides stoking division amongst the larger population, such strategy is also about defining deviancy further and further down, and smashing and eviscerating the differences between male and female as part of a larger strategy by the Left to end what they deem “white male heterosexual privilege.” They are as much apologists for LGBT extremist “leadership” (the same “leadership” that’d condemned Pamela for her pointing out Islam’s homophobia and litany of atrocities against LGBT’s) as they are for said Black, Hispanic and Islamic supremacist radicals.
Destroying Judeo-Christian moral foundations is why Leftist are allies w/ IslamoNazis. But eventually the godless Leftists will be eaten by the crocodile that they appease.
Bravo, Trump needs to some how get control of the out of control country. We have liberal judges blocking perfectly legal actions that he has taken and nobody seems to have a problem with that. I am so sick of the lying fake media it really needs to be shut down. I know I know, freedom of the press and all, but come on, when they have a political agenda and they sell it as news? They are such liars that it is criminal what they are doing. Something needs to be done. All the politicians need to be fired and arrested for treason they all took an oath to uphold the constitution yet they don’t, they are only interested in one thing staying in power. I love Trump god help Trump save this country.
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Beverly
6 years ago
Of course they not only want to eliminate free speech, they want to eliminate the 1st amendment period.
Antifa/BLM served a two-fold purpose; to oust Trump and a 1st step in limiting 1st amendment rights.
I do not approve of the Unite’s message, but I do approve of their 1st amendment right to express it. I do not have to listen to it, nor does anybody else.
“On April 4, 2017, the US Senate passed Senate Resolution 118, “Condemning hate crime and any other form of racism, religious or ethnic bias, discrimination, incitement to violence, or animus targeting a minority in the United States”. The resolution was drafted by a Muslim organization, EmgageUSA (formerly EmergeUSA) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).” “On April 6, almost the exact same text was introduced as House Resolution H.Res. 257, …” . As if that wasn’t enough: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10544/criminalize-free-speech
Targeting a minority? Condemning hate crime? After watching this weekends Charlotteville’s disaster and the condemnation of the Unite group without any Congressional member condemning Antifa?BLM who were there to protest Unite’s permit to exercise their 1st amendment rights, I have to ask “Who is to determine what a hate crime is?
Ichabod Crain
6 years ago
“Racism is natural and acceptable”
“It is not racism but violence and the use of illegitimate force which is the evil.”
– You are deluded. Racism is evil. period. It is not acceptable.
Racism is defined as: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. Your race is superior – in what way? We are all of equal worth as human beings. We are all members of the human family. Racial differences are insignificant in this respect.
Of course when we get into political issues where one side is predominantly a race different than the other, the problem gets defined on racial terms – and that may be legitimate in those instances. It all gets very complicated real quick. But then there is an added dimension, because there is also a political argument. We could, for example, object to our country becoming overwhelmed by people of a different race and culture threatening to make us a minority in our own country. On the one hand, we have a legitimate concern, while one the other, it still holds true that on an individual level we are all of equal worth as individuals. It is all very complicated and too early in the morning yet for me to be able to fully develop my thesis, but anybody making such blatant racist statements as you is a racist.
Maybe the term should have been ‘tribalism is natural and genetically inherited’, which doesn’t make its’ extreme form at all excusable as we are supposed to be at a point of our development as humans of being civilized. Never the less it does explain to a degree mob mentality.
Plutarchus
6 years ago
DONALD TRUMP THE JUDEOPHILE IS A NEO-NAZI SYMPATHIZER?
Trump loves the Jewishness of his Orthodox Jewish daughter. Loves the Jewishness of his Orthodox Jewish son in law. Loves the Jewishness of his Orthodox Jewish grandchildren. And most of all he loves the Jewishness of the Jewish State of Israel and is its strongest supporter. In short, there isn’t a neo-Nazi Jew hating bone in Donald Trump’s body. In fact, he is the closest thing we ever had to a Jewish President.
When anti-Israel, neo-Nazis like David Duke praise Trump, and say they back him (when they really hate his Jew loving, pro-Zionist guts), it’s to get media attention for their evil, racist, anti-semitic cause.
Ever since Charlottesville I have been wondering if the MSM would have been in such a furore if the person killed had been a ‘right winger’ instead of a leftist and the murderer a leftist too.. I suspect they would have shrugged and said they had it coming and quickly forgot it
One need only look at the murders of police officers in Brooklyn, Dallas et al., by BLM criminals to get your answer about the lame-stream “fake news” media’s responses to same.
Gary Taylor
6 years ago
Brilliant article by Daniel. Further there is nationalism and there is ethno-nationalism, the former based on philosophical ideas and the latter based on race. Let’s hope that people are smart enough to know the difference and not be like Michael Moore and Nancy Pelosi and so forth. Its simple…no free speech -no tolerance- no equal rights. Its unacceptable unamerican unconstitutional….and there resides the issue with liberals. https://youtu.be/TBMG6NeX1X4
Mack Pooh
6 years ago
First, and foremost, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 must be rescinded, obliterated, banned, ammended………….
Gotten Rid Of…… Period!!!!
The Civil Rights Act is racist, yet, remains a token “gimme because i’m black” agenda and because it is “gimme because i’m black”, remains vital to black being.
Post modern racism is a black integrated sequence to maintain the “po lil black boy” thought and theory process and maintain the deck of race cards. In short, blacks want racism. Blacks need racism. Blacks love racism. Blacks thrive on racism. Without racism, blacks are without a purpose.
Blacks have an identity issue. They have multiple identifiers for the sole purpose using each as a token or ticket to………
black
african American
n****r
minority
people of color
negro
So, with all these identifiers, who are ghe racists???
Remember, it was obama who supported the BoweL Movement (blm). It was obama who played the “I am white and black” card to get his token shot into the Oval Office, and once in, returned to his roots of being a black boy. Holder and obama are both racist and should havr been taken out to the gallows, literally. Black on white crime, thuggery, criminal deviancies, and deviancies against whites based on a manipulated and idiotic theory of “white priviledge” which by the way is a most stupid thought, but coming from blacks, is routine considering the lack of intellectual prowess.
Blacks have affirmative action. Civil Rights. Black or african American veterans groups. Black college students want private classrooms, cafeteria’s, and rooms……….
Islam, like blacks, thrives on the white puppets in America to get their way. Neither group is worthy of American value…….
If this sounds racist, it is. Since obama took office and planted seeds of racism, i have become a racist especially since blm and the pathetic lethargy blacks refer to as intellectual exploits.
James
6 years ago
Does anybody else think that anti-racism has become a much worse problem than racism at this point? It feels to me like what the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act did for sobriety. Prohibition of alcohol made anti-drunkenness a bigger problem than drunkenness. And if you dared to question Prohibition you were vehemently denounced as an advocate of inebriation and intoxication and death. There was no middle ground where you could say that alcohol was a problem but getting too extreme against it was not a good solution.
A few pointers:
– “Anti-racism” is code for anti-white.
– “Anti-sexual assault” is code for anti-male.
Any other questions?
As for Prohibition, it took the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929 to convince such “temperance” advocates that it was a total failure.
Michael Jacobs
6 years ago
The straw-man version of the current left which this article paints is almost unrecognizably foreign to what most actual people on the left actually do and believe.
Hopefully the folks on the right are equally aghast about the KKKers and neo-Nazis walking alongside them, as “middle of the road bourgeois” lefties are of the freaks on the far left fringe. But somehow that’s not the message I’m getting from this article. It’s saying that the existence of such nutty fringe groups as Antifa LEGITIMATES the neo-Nazis and Klansmen.
No, it does not. Their extremism CONDEMNS the fringe, on both sides. But I’m sensing the right is trying to ASSIMILATE their own fringe as legitimate partners while painting the average, middle-of-the-road middle-class liberal as in bed with Antifa types, which they are NOT. Nothing could be further from the truth. And that attempt to skate by and let the alt-right in the door of the White House is what’s worrisome here, for American democracy.
What I’m waiting for is a whole hearted REPUDIATION of right-wing extremism from the average, middle-of-the-road, middle-class right winger. I haven’t heard it yet.
No, I don’t think a little old lady in a Tea Party shirt waving an American flag is a terrorist. But if she SUPPORTS the Klan or the Nazis, then she IS one too. Let’s hear it, Tea Partyers. Do you repudiate and reject the Klan and the Nazis, OR NOT?
notme123
6 years ago
Exactly. It takes two to fight.
The biggest hate group are the mooslimes. Also blm,black panthers, Louis Farrakan’s mooslimes, Southern poverty, cair and many more.
Jeff
6 years ago
Trump condemned both sides. As well he should have, because both sides were violent. One thing to remember though , only one side had a permit to hold a protest.
Also we do not know the whole story yet as to what led to the horrific events in Charlottesville. No blame whatsoever has been placed on the alt-left lunatics that rampage, rage, smash, destroy and burn public and private property as they so please it seems.
Also, why can’t Obama just go away? He’s such an idiot. Had to be rigged elections for that total loser to be elected twice. He’s an arrogant black supremacist just like Van Jones.
Vented, my opinion.
You really have to wonder if Iran played a role (but just A role), alongside Soros, ACORN, et al., in the rigging of the ’08 and ’12 elections to favor Obama. Especially given his treasonous actions towards that rogue terror state. If they did, that is far worse than what been alleged about Russia and Trump.
Buck
6 years ago
This was a false flags by the leftist . More coming out on it all the time.
R. Arandas
6 years ago
All lives matter. I mean, honestly, some of us here are neither white nor black, you know. But it’s disingenuous to try to portray this as a solely black vs. white issue.
There are white supremacists, yes, but there are also many African-American criminals who do commit violent acts against Asians and Latinos as well.
Ed Maher
6 years ago
How can an organization that wears all black, conceals their faces with masks and scarfs, and try to destroy everything American or beat up people that don’t agree with them “anti-facist?!!!
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