Goodbye, Straight Dope

[mikecurtis]

@betterlifethroughchemistry

No, I don’t, I see people on the far right being absolutely terrible (marches in Charlottesville, etc.), but I don’t see anyone at all on the left spectra, specifically here at the SDMB, be it mid, far or very far, condemning the Antifa violence which happens without comment here in the SDMB…

Not everyone. . .bona fide anarcho-socialist-openborders pacifist hippy here who denounces violence whenever and wherever it occurs.

@mikecurtis

Doesn’t matter if they’ve been around for one day, one year, or one hundred years; or if they are a loosely connected bunch of crackpots or a well organized cabal. If they are advocating violence (and actually using it) against a group of people, even if they consider “these people” to be a threat to the American way of life, then they are guilty of using the same tactics that we find so offensive in groups like the KKK and are therefore on the same moral ground. Just because you find them less offensive and less pervasive than other hate organizations doesn’t make them any less a hate organization. And make no mistake, the people calling themselves antifa are advocating violence and actually using it.

If you (or anyone else) thinks that adding another hate group to the (sadly) growing list of hate groups takes anything away from monsterishness of any other group, then you really don’t understand what is going on.

mc

(yes I said “monsterishness”)