Here's the not twisted/fake news story from a local paper http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-peace-statue-defaced-atlanta-protesters/uYisgLYGLNEyxugLG5spPN/
This is likely a false flag, White Supremacist trying to cast blame on others. The statue represents peace between the North and South and who other than White Supremacist would be against that? Think about it
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Originally posted by Robtard
Here's the not twisted/fake news story from a local paper http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-peace-statue-defaced-atlanta-protesters/uYisgLYGLNEyxugLG5spPN/This is likely a false flag, White Supremacist trying to cast blame on others. The statue represents peace between the North and South and who other than White Supremacist would be against that? Think about it
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Of course, it's likely a false flag. Whatever you say.
Originally posted by Robtard
If should probably read the story before dismissing it, sport. I know it doesn't have a clickbait title like TheBlaze's 'Antifa attacks again!', but still.
I did indeed, and I ask again for proof of your claims of this being a false flag? Hey if it is...it is. Nothing in the article told me that. It actually didn't go into too much detail about what went down and spends more time on the history of the statue.
I guess that last part I got from the title too, right?
Originally posted by BackFire
Does anyone else think that Antifa is a bad name for a group of violent dissidents?It sounds like the name of an antique shop on Etsy or something.
I think a name that means anti-fascism is a bad name for fascists.
Though yeah, sounds like the name of a quilt making company as well.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
When he was forced to read a prepared statement, which he took back less than 24 hours later. Say it with me: "equivocation."
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The moment people on the right summon the courage to denounce White Nationalists without equivocation, then maybe I will muster up the strength to give a damn.
He absolutely did denounce them without equivocation. Saying that they're criminals and thugs who are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans is an absolutely clear denouncement of them. And in the conference in which you say he took his statement back, he reiterated that the Neo Nazis and white nationalist should be condemned totally. If you just flatly refuse to conceed the point because you hate Trump just go ahead and say so, but he did the exact thing you said would prompt a concession from you in regards to Antifa.
Originally posted by darthgoober
He didn't take it back, he stood by what he said Sat. He simply acknowledged that the violence on the left was bad also. You specifically said...He absolutely did denounce them without equivocation. Saying that they're criminals and thugs who are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans is an absolutely clear denouncement of them. And in the conference in which you say he took his statement back, he reiterated that the Neo Nazis and white nationalist should be condemned totally. If you just flatly refuse to conceed the point because you hate Trump just go ahead and say so, but he did the exact thing you said would prompt a concession from you in regards to Antifa.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
YouTube video
I'm not interested in watching a Leftist give his own person narration of events, if he took it back then post an unedited vid of him doing it and tell me when the "take back" happens cause right here in this video right after the 11:50 he says that the Nazis and white nationalists should be condemned totally.
An interesting article by CNN:
Unmasking the leftist Antifa movement: Activists seek peace through violence
It is long, but I made sure to read every word. I was interested to see if the group would ever be denounced at all in the piece. They do not seem to be. I was amused that Tim Kaines kid was arrested alongside Antifa protesters, but claimed to be peacefully protesting.
Anyways;
"Like many young Antifa members who spoke with CNN, the turning point for Bhatt was when Trump in late 2015 ad-libbed a campaign remark toward a Black Lives Matter protester, saying he "should have been roughed up."
In another moment that has catalyzed Antifa members, Trump in February 2016 told a campaign crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to "knock the crap out of" protesters holding tomatoes, adding, "I will pay for the legal fees, I promise, I promise."
They'd have you believe they never got violent before the things that they mention Trump doing happened. This is not backed up by actual reality. Yet CNN has allowed them to put forth such an idea without correcting it. I'd ask why, but we already know why.
"In New York's Union Square on May Day, a masked member of the Antifa group Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council told CNN why he wore black bloc and waved a black flag.
"We cover our face because the Nazis will try to find out who we are. And that is a very bad thing because they harass people," he said. "We're trying to stop them from organizing. ... When they organize, they kill people, they hurt people, they fight people. And we're the ones who are fighting back."
I know, those damn nazis and their harassment. Nobody but nazis do it.
Kyle Quinn Hid At A Friend's House After Being Misidentified On Twitter As A Racist
Poor guy, but hey they *thought* dude was a nazi or racist. Their hearts were in the right place of course. One of my favorite parts from the article:
"Antifa activists often don't hesitate to destroy property, which many see as the incarnation of unfair wealth distribution.
"Violence against windows -- there's no such thing as violence against windows," a masked Antifa member in Union Square told CNN. "Windows don't have -- they're not persons. And even when they are persons, the people we fight back against, they are evil. They are the living embodiment, they are the second coming of Hitler."
They are the second coming of Hitler? Was this an Antifa member or Ashley Judd they were talking to. I also like the "windows are not people" line. People do not say windows are people and have feelings. They merely point to the violence and destruction of this group, and if *only* it were just limited to breaking windows. Then this gem comes:
"Antifa members also sometimes launch attacks against people who aren't physically attacking them. The movement, Crow said, sees alt-right hate speech as violent, and for that, its activists have opted to meet violence with violence.
Right or wrong, "that's for history to decide," he said."
Right there, you see it flat out said. They view certain kinds of speech as actual violence, and feel it is correct to respond in turn with violence. But oh the violence they respond to does not fall under such a flimsy definition of violence they accuse some on the right of(mean words) but just plain destruction and physical beatings. One guy who has been involved with this stuff for decades is actually going after them for the violence(a rarity among the anarchists). He describes using his body to stop a knife attack by Antifa on some Klan members.
Discussing an event back in June in Portland a police spokesmen says:
""We did seize a large number of weapons or things that could be used as weapons," Simpson said. "Everything from knives to brass knuckles to poles and sticks and bricks and bottles and road flares and chains. One hundred percent, they came geared up to fight if it would be allowed."
One wonders if some Antifa douches will show up in Boston today?
And so it begins.