You need to draw a bright clear line

by HullieAndMikes, Yelling at Sam Cane, Dunedin, Thursday, November 09, 2017, 05:19 (3065 days ago) @ Greg

Between people who may have the whiff of authoritarianism or anti-democracy and those who are actually fascists, because those are big distinctions.

Despite not having the best understanding of free speech or sometimes being violent, your average college activist and antifa member are in no way fascist. There is an underpinning ideology that is dedicated to pluralism ad equality, and it is incredibly dangerous to put them on any trend line that connects to people like Matthew Heimbach, who wanders around wearing shirts praising a Hungarian psychopath who literally hung Jews on meat hooks in a slaughterhouse and leads mobs into bars to get into fights with interracial couples.

One of the foundational parts of fascism are roving bands of people who have the tacit complicity of the government to terrorize communities into silence while pushing for a national culture of voracious territorial gain and ethic cleansing. It is worth considering, at an early stage, how people like Richard Spencer take advantage of the weak points of democracy and exploit our "both sides" tendencies.

There is a reason this plaque exists.