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The right uses 'Antifa' as a catch all term for anyone on the left doing anything they don't like. It's a meaningless label, but not enough people get that.

>>p1neco+(OP)
There are definitely people who proudly identify as "Antifa". And a pretty good number of them are what one might generically describe as agitators (at least).

If nothing else, they seem to be the douchebags defacing war memorials.

>>p1neco+(OP)
I guess it's the mirror image of the word "fascist" being sometimes used as a catch-all term.

>>downer+D1
"War memorials."

>>downer+D1
> defacing war memorials.

What an odd thing to do. Which memorials?

>>tricer+s4
Just in the last day or two:

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/world-war-ii-memorial-vandal...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/05/25/veterans-ange...

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2020/05/25/Wa...

https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/va-headquarters-vandal...

https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Veterans-memorial-monument...

A bit older:

https://www.kptv.com/news/3-arrested-vandalism-suspect-wante...

This is just a few links--there are many more. As far as I'm concerned, this is all you need to know about Antifa. You should make up your own mind, though.

>>downer+Z5
1) Despite your preamble, this is the only linked instance actually from the last day: Unknown persons tagged DC structures during the protest, with the same single person spraying messages on the WWII and Lincoln memorials.

2) Memorial Day: Unknown persons damaged two stones on a monument to Puerto Rican veterans for an unknown reason.

3) Memorial Day: Unknown persons painted an obscure reference to Peruvian communists on an unrelated WWI memorial.

4) This is the same news as (1).

5) May 4: Unknown persons tagged the wrong monument for not counting soldiers of color.

6) February 8: A counterdemonstration against a KKK rally (not mentioned as such in this Fox News article) found itself aimless when the Klan was intimidated by them into late-canceling, with some becoming restless and opportunistically tagging.

This is clearly a desperate search through Google News looking for any vandalism of war memorials other than the high profile reported ones you obviously had to make an effort to exclude (because you definitely didn't want to mention them now), blaming them all on "antifa" even where literally nothing is known about the vandals or their motives and concluding with "this is all you need to know."

>>user98+le
If by desperate, you mean low effort, I'll sort of accept that. I spent about 90s on it.

But as to these not being "Antifa", get real. If any weren't done by Antifa, Antifa would nonetheless cheer the perpetrators on with great enthusiasm. That's what Antifa is about. They are denigrators and destroyers of that which is decent and noble in humankind.

>>downer+9t
> They are denigrators and destroyers of that which is decent and noble in humankind.

...fascism, as per their name?

The KKK, as in your own link?

Or currently, multiple Confederate memorials[0] created specifically "to further a white supremacist future"[1], which you ever so gingerly avoided referencing directly?

[0]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/01/george...

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues...

>>user98+Pu
I'm speaking most specifically of those who served in WWII, which in my opinion was the most heroic service in living memory. They prevented what would have been world-wide tyranny, and though not soon enough, prevented the extermination of the Jews in concentration camps.

Antifa has shit on the memory of these honorable warriors--many of whom gave their lives--by defacing their monument. For shame.

>>downer+aG
One person did that (or possibly a small group; I'm not certain of the details). Are you suggesting that an entire nebulous, poorly-defined movement is responsible for one particular action by one particular person?

>>coffee+hQ
It's starting to look more concerted. Check out the story about the defacement of the memorial to the black Civil War regiment in Boston. Something's up.