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Originally Posted by timun
You're welcome. 
I didn't see Fuzz's earlier post until after I'd made mine:
... but I've often wondered the same thing. I treat "Antifa" like I treat "mainstream media", "fake news", "woke (left)/woke-ism", "cancel culture", "Critical Race Theory", "Laurentian elites": just another right-wing shibboleth. It's meaningless gobbledy#### to the rest of us. It's supposed to be... |
Right. As much as people want to theorise on how others are denying the existence of these things as part of some greater moral or social game where they would lose points for admitting they exist, it’s mostly just the fact that none of them actually exist in the form they’re most often presented.
Is antifa real? Yes.
Is antifa real in the way it’s presented by right wing media, politicians, and commentators? No.
So thinking it’s a myth isn’t really wrong since the legend is far bigger than reality. Just like cancel culture, or the evils of “mainstream media,” or the others named above. Their primary functions are as dogwhistles for dumb suckers and rubes on the right, primarily coming from pseudo intellectual grifters.
The strategy is basically just taken from the book the religious right wrote in their efforts against gay folks and now primarily trans folks. Stir idiots up into a frenzy and moral panic and they’ll do whatever you say.