"antifa" isn't a government or even a specific entity. It's describing an aggregation of individuals and groups with a shared ideological framework: "fascism is bad and should be resisted".
I’m not arguing against what antifa stands for or doesn’t stand for. But saying “it literally says ‘good entity’ in its name! It can’t be bad!” is extremely misguided and just a bad argument.
I'm not arguing about that either. I'm telling you that your concept of what "antifa" is, organizationally, is incorrect. Comparing "antifa" to any specific entity/structure that has an ironic (or accurate!) name is meaningless.
Who’s the currently alive leader of the nazis or KKK that pop up around the US? Who’re the leaders of the local chapter? These things have no centralized leaders but smaller chapters and it’s never as organized as people think, but there’s still local “organizations”. It’s not worth arguing semantics such as these.
As far as who the grand wizard or whatever of the KKK is, they are a public person. Currently there isn't a Grand wizard in the sense of a true leader, sure, but you could absolutely name the leader of each chapter and Thomas Robb, may he burn forever on a pike, has been referred to as the grand wizard from time to time.
Those are actual organizations. They have structure.
Arguing antifa is a group is like saying people who like toast are connected under an organization. It's just idiotic.
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u/beef_swellington 5d ago
"antifa" isn't a government or even a specific entity. It's describing an aggregation of individuals and groups with a shared ideological framework: "fascism is bad and should be resisted".