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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
People have explained what antifa is pretty well, it's literally just a wide selection of people of various levels of anti-fascist ideology and who may use violence to various degrees, but I've noticed alot of people seem to be confused about what Fascism actually is.


It's not just a group that's authoritarian or that uses violence to get what they want, that's wildly reductive, literally every political stance utilises a degree of violence to maintain their ideology. Every single one.


Fascism is specifically a right-wing ultra-nationalist movement, usually opposed to academia, democracy, internationalism, egalitarianism etc and bases their ideology on the concept of a "national rebirth" usually inspired by a largely fictional "mythic past". (See Hitler's Third reich, Mussolini's "Reborn roman empire",etc)


Which is why people who understand this and are aware of history found the phrase "Make america great again" very troubling.


Some random people rioting or beating up Nazis does not fit this description. Alot of the antifa scaremongering is just that, scaremongering.


That said, unsure how people think you can deal with Fascism without using the tactics antifa have used for decades.
gpt
By... Arguing them down, with facts and logic. Because... You can argue with fascists, right?

Right?

Guys? ...Am I right?