Except that's not what they're pushing at all, you're just re-using what you call a "leftist buzzword" but there's no merit to it.
Outside of their use of violence, which again I'm not defending, how are their promoting authoritarianism (which is what I assume you meant)? What is their ideology? What are their social positions? What are their foreign policy positions? Monetary positions?
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Oh the horror, someone had a milkshake dumped on them. I'm sure they'll need crisis counseling for life because they're apparently a snowflake.
Haha people seem to conveniently forget parts of history when they want to spin a narrative. I've seen alot of people in the UK try to paint ww1 as a fight for freedom against imperialism.... Conveniently forgetting we were the British EMPIRE......
Or parliament saying shit like we're the worlds oldest democracy..... When 90% of people couldn't vote till 1926..... Oldest Parliament... Not oldest democracy. But thats off topic
"It doesn't matter if you believe me or not but common sense doesn't really work here. You're mad, I'm mad. We're all MAD here."
Do conservative have a long history of being targeted by milkshakes systemically? Have they faced a near constant barrage of harassment historically? Did these milkshaking attacks end with, say, one of them being beaten to a pulp and left for dead (and eventually dying) tied up to a barbed wire fence?
No? Cool, that was a pointless strawman you put up there. Not looking to get into gender issues as that's out of bounds, but this was a terrible post.
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Cool, so if that's your position than you can say the same about all the white supremacist groups that show up armed, and often times masked, to protests as well. If you're being consistent, at least.
That's still not an ideology though. That's just a tactic. You seem unaware of what an ideology is so here are a few definitions -
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ideology
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ideology-society
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/...glish/ideology
Antifascism can absolutely be part of a political ideology, but it is not one itself.
Oh boo hoo. People want to claim oppression points for things that didn't happen to them.
You make light of what's technically assault. I make light of what is verbal and and physical assault. Perfectly fair.
And sounds like those people should get some of that therapy you recommended if being called something mean is so harmful.
Edit: And a mod saying gender threads aren't allowed here. What a joke.
Talk to some trans folks and most will have stories about harassment/threats that they've suffered for being trans. And even if they haven't personally faced serious threats, the history of violence against trans people, for example, for simply being trans is ever present within the community.
When was the last time conservatives were forced to use specific bathrooms because laws were passed that treated them like sexual predators simply for existing, again?
I make light of it because conservatives love to insult liberals for being snowflakes, and if we're being real here a milkshaking is about as violent as telling someone to go fuck themselves, especially vegan milkshakes. Not excusing it if it violates the law and I've consistently supported criminal punishments for any that engage in this behavior, but pretending it comes anywhere close to actual physical assault and injury is dishonest as fuck. They need a change of shirt and maybe a shower. How dreadful.
Anti facism isn't part of an ideology any more than an ideology is opposed to any other ideology.
Anti facism can be used as a tactic to gain support for an ideology or orgonosation by banding together otherwise ideologically opposed individuals to be used to fight the main opposition.
Like how the German communist party attempted to use the antifacist of Germany to sweep away the Nazis know full well that would leave them as the dominant party and ideology over the Democrats and bismarkians.
Antifa is neither an ideology nor a group per say. Its a movement, a movement that can contain groups and a movement that can be co-opted as a tool for an ideology. But still just a movement that is easily fractured if it isn't kept focused and internally policed.
Yes, authoritarianism is an ideology.
However, not only are Antifa not pushing it, they're diametrically opposed to it, and their actions directly breach one of the four basic tenets described in the basic description of authoritarianism, here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
Specifically, #3.
There's no possible way to make the argument that antifa are "authoritarian". There's plenty to criticize them on, but lying about basic terminology like this isn't an argument.
"It doesn't matter if you believe me or not but common sense doesn't really work here. You're mad, I'm mad. We're all MAD here."
I've never denied that antifa are willing to engage in violent resistance. I have, in fact, stated exactly that, and that while I support their cause and motivations, I can't support their initiation of violence.
So no. I'm not "refusing to acknowledge" anything. I'm pointing out that you're using words incorrectly, in the hopes that doing so lets you reshape reality. Which it will not and can not ever do.
No. Fascism is far more complex than simple authoritarianism.
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disagree with your bolded word. Nothing they do is resistance. they actively go to places. and actively engage in violence. They do not resist anything, they engage those who disagree with them.
"It doesn't matter if you believe me or not but common sense doesn't really work here. You're mad, I'm mad. We're all MAD here."