# Advocating violence and terrorism. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 3, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advocating-violence-and-terrorism/855004 "2020-06-03T20:11:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 40
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advocating-violence-and-terrorism/855004/40 "2020-06-08T02:33:50Z")
Do we have mods on this board? This is something you have think over? If this flies here you might have some deep, deep problems. > [@I'm a member of Antifa](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member-of-antifa/854983/9): > > The bouncer analogy is pretty cool, and I appreciate you sharing it! still, the tie that binds for anti-fascists is to fight fascism by any means necessary, including violence. philosophically it’s based in the reality that the vast, vast majority of nonviolent protest throughout human history is unsuccessful. most folks can name dozens of violent revolutions but few can name more then two nonviolent ones. Antifa would love to have a movement similar in scope and effectiveness to the NSK and Laibach but we ideologically don’t believe it’s possible in the US. this willingness to use violence as well as nonviolent methods is what separates us from BLM and Communist movements et al. > [@I'm a member of Antifa](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-member-of-antifa/854983/32): > > I could definitely tighten up my definitions here. I’m using “violence” broadly, to refer to a range of actions from murder to “silence is violence”. Within that range, I’m assigning relative values to different kinds of violence, rather than creating a violent/nonviolent dichotomy. Most people do this, consciously or not, but I’m not sure how consistent I’ve been. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advocating-violence-and-terrorism/855004)._