Transcription: I Just Found Out that My Child's History Teacher is Forcing Them to Learn About Antifa Leaders. What is this Country Coming to?
Wikipedia page on Anti-fascism, listing Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Charles de Gaulle as Counterrevolutionary Anti-fascism examples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism
PS: Don't worry, today (9/17/2025) is the day that the house committee deliberates on Macro Rubio's ability to use the people's freedom of speech as evidence of terrorist organisation aid.
H.R. 5300, SEC. 226. NO PASSPORTS FOR TERRORISTS AND TRAFFICKERS
So it's just a matter of time before all the Antifas are sent to concentration camps.
PPS: Sorry everyone, looks like this post got too many upvotes and influenced American politics.
Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization
Im so confused. Are real people out there openly in favor of “fascism”?
Some people are openly fascist, yes. Thanks to the stupid fucking Jubbilee VS videos, I now know the depths of human stupidity are more boundless than I imagined.
However, I think this person just can't connect the dots that being anti-anti-fascism is just being pro-fascism. They don't actually think about the words they use, their meaning or their context. They just know that "antifa" is a left wing group, and left-wing, of course, bad, obviously. And since "antifa" stands for "anti-fascism", anyone that are "anti-fascists", including historical figures who lived and fought fascism well before the Antifa group existed, are the same as this modern group, and therefore left-wing, which, again, bad. They don't then take the next step in logic to, "if the anti-fascists were bad for opposing fascism, then fascism must be good. Praise Mussolini." Again, some do get there, but most are just thoughtless dum-dums.
It reminds me of when you ask people "If you are driving 80 miles PER HOUR, how long will it take for you to drive 80 miles?" And then they start guessing random shit or trying to logic it out or do math instead of just understand what the hell is being said. Weird mental gymnastics ensue that just demonstrate their complete lack of understanding.
What are you confused about? The current US administration is very openly fascist.
Yes, but they don't call it that. Nazis and fascism are "bad," regardless of how perfectly they embody their ideology.
They pretty much reinvented it from conservatism. It's like carcinization, crustaceans evolving into crabs, but various right-wing flavors evolving into fascism.
you take that back about crabs they're better than that
It wasn't meant to insult crabs, I just needed a metaphor for this kind of convergent evolution on the right.
Nearly half of America seems to be although I'd argue they're too stupid to even realize it.
They are like "nuh uh. You're the facist." When you read them the definition of the word they say google changed it.
It's so fucking infuriating... The very same "facts over feelings" group will deny the veracity of any fact provided unless it comes directly from their propagandist of choice...
People seem to have forgotten that the core conceit of George Orwell's 1984 isn't the surveillance state or the constant war or the two minutes hate and all the rest. It's the idea that by perverting what people even understand as truth you can get them to do anything.
Anti-fascists are Fascists, criticising someone who spouted hate speech is hate speech, anti-racism is racist.
This is why I only listen to my mom, she's always right!
This really feels like a polite way of trying to both sides that people who are bigoted assholes are exactly the same as people who dislike bigoted assholes.
I disagree, i don't think the person above is saying both sides are the same in terms of policy. But that both sides are being looked at as smart, impactful leaders that know how to play the game of politics.
Moderate liberals have elected people that they consider to be smart moderate liberals and they trust them to do the right thing. But a moderate liberal solution to actual fascists taking over the government is not an appropriate response. Just ask the social Democrats of the Weimar Republic.
My mom says that this is great because this is what she voted for, and she is always right!
yes or they cant put together antifa is short for anti facist
edit: spelling
tbf you can't put too much trust in a name either. the nazis weren't exactly socialist, despite calling themselves "national socialists".
i think the problem arises because people think that antifa is a single entity (hence e.g. antifa member) like the nazis, rather than antifa being closer to a political descriptor like "leftist" or "anti-capitalist"
Yes.
I don't know all these elitist words, but I heard that Antifa is a well organized Communist terrorist organisation!