If you thought the "Antifa" scare was BS, you were correct.

[Berniewood Hogan]

Trump's Media Pals Are Busy Creating a Left-Wing 'Threat' to Balance Out the Awful Racist Right-Wing Hordes That Threaten Civil Society

Trump's Media Pals Are Busy Creating a Left-Wing 'Threat' to Balance Out the Awful Racist Right-Wing Hordes That Threaten Civil Society
We have to be vigilant about the coming smear project against Antifa.
By Thom Hartmann / AlterNet

In these dark days, an intergenerational warning is in order: Antifa folks, be wary. They are coming for you.

Some of us have seen this movie before. In my generation, when I was a teenage member of MSU’s SDS in the late 1960s, I remember the guy who was always yelling, “Kill the pigs,” and encouraging us to burn down the ROTC building on campus. In later years, I heard from old SDS colleagues that when they sued the police, they learned that the outspoken guy was a police officer and his friends were informants.

Hitler and his friends in the right-wing press repeatedly told the people that the majority, the “silent majority” of good Germans, hated the leftists.

Those questioning him were labeled “communists,” "anti-German" or "not good Germans," and it was suggested they were aiding the enemies of the state by failing in the patriotic necessity of supporting the nation's valiant men in uniform. It was one of his most effective ways to stifle dissent and pit wage-earning people (from whom most of the police and army came) against the "intellectuals and liberals" who were critical of his policies.

He spoke openly of his “love” for police and the military, and they in turn embraced him with fervor, redoubling the violence they wrought against peaceful protestors.

Hitler’s rise to power was largely on the backs of the labor and communist movements. They were his “enemies” first and foremost (although anti-Semitism had been part of his shtick from the beginning: his main attack was that the labor and communist movements were filled with Jews). And he largely destroyed them when he successfully sold the German people on the idea that the "left” was responsible for burning down the Parliament building, the 9/11 event of that day.

There’s little doubt in my mind, having lived through the era of COINTELPRO and the Patriot Act, that somewhere out there is a person who’s planning to commit an act of terrorism. It may be a dedicated but deluded left-winger, or more likely, a right-winger hoping to stir things up by pretending to be a left-winger. And Trump and his friendly “news” outlets are ready to use it.

 

[ORDER_66]

NO shyt...

 

[88m3]

no surprise there, there are more 4c retards and bots talking about it than anything

 

[Regular_P]

no surprise there, there are more 4c retards and bots talking about it than anything

Don't forget Nancy Pelosi. :kobewhatever:

Pelosi condemns 'antifa' after Berkeley clashes

 

[Apex Mentality]

Nothing new... Despite the negative side of the modern left, a lot of these "extremists" are paid.

 

[88m3]

Don't forget Nancy Pelosi. :kobewhatever:

Pelosi condemns 'antifa' after Berkeley clashes

It's dumb I agree but at the same time she shouldn't just ignore it I suppose

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[ineedsleep212]

Any movement on the left is gonna get slandered like this. Just like how when folks are writing a lot of their antifa articles, they're out there using images of far right activists, excuse me (too much nytimes reading ) Nazis, in europe or some shyt.

 

[acri1]

Yeah, nobody even knew about or cared about antifa until FOX decided they needed a left-wing equivalent to white nationalists.

And as usual the Dems let them get away with it.

 

[NotaPAWG]

the right has created this total lie and fear mongering bullshyt that anti-fa is real fascists

anti-fa has no real specific ideology or organization, doctrine etc except for most of them falling on the left in the political spectrum. many antifa are either anarchists, socialists, marxists etc

yet they are making anti-fa out to be some doctrine or specific organization, which it is not.

and now they are equating anti-fa to fukking fascism without knowing shyt about fascism. fascism/st is inherently right wing and opposed to leftist ideology and liberalism. a leftist can not fascists. it's a contradiction

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Its all going to fall apart when people figure out all the media and government does is lie.

Time is about up honestly.

Ignore the white racist MSM.

Defend your community.

Kill those racist fukks who try to harm you and yours.

 

[Mensch Fontana]

Yeah, nobody even knew about or cared about antifa until FOX decided they needed a left-wing equivalent to white nationalists.

And as usual the Dems let them get away with it.

Thats the beauty of it, the dems has to condem it even it its propaganda (which it clearly is) because because they cant be seen as pro "antifa". Its the worlds biggest strawman

 

[ineedsleep212]

Look at trash ass Trevor Noah bruhs

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Look at trash ass Trevor Noah bruhs

so now trevor noah is trash?

 

[African Peasant]

Extremists of both side are manipulated tools. It's almost a constant in modern history.