Originally Posted by
Aucald
It is the Nazi comparison that generally fouls these forms of analysis up - though "Nazi" has become a general slur it does have a specific meaning and context. The only thing that is truly a Nazi is a Nazi: "a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler and advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan supremacy." Antifa are not Nazis because they aren't a member of said group and espouse none of its views. That being said, neither do we exist in a world where everything is divided down a spectrum of "Nazi" and "Not Nazi" being tantamount for "evil" and "good" respectively.
Groups with radical viewpoints supported by or expressed with violence is not a good thing in a civil society. It doesn't matter what the political or social persuasion of said group is - whether it is pro or anti-fascist, liberal or conservative, or any other existing dichotomy.