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Originally Posted by Itse
The anti-fascists, lead by the far-left back then like they are now, were in the right then and they're in the right now.
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I mean, first of all, if you think that sounds like some sort of glorious victory for the counterprotesters - "175 people were injured including police, women and children", for a march that if it had proceeded would probably have resulted in no bodily harm to anyone - I just don't agree with you at all. No one who goes to a demonstration with the intention of turning it into a war zone is "in the right", no matter how objectionable the content of the march itself.
Second, though... I mean, yeah, Antifa has had some success in beating the piss out of white supremacists (or in other cases, just random people they happen not to like) using pepper spray, bike locks and metal poles, or just their bare hands... What do you think is going to happen when a real fight breaks out between Antifa and these lunatics?
If you want your grand struggle against the evil right wing nationalists, well, they have all the guns, so good luck with that. There's going to be blood in the streets. That's your option if you want to respond to people whose views you despise with violence. Everyone's getting shot.
This is why we
have free speech principles, to stop this from being the sole means of resolving ideological conflict.