Heroic Americans against facism: Antifa viciously attacks journalist in Portland who had previously chronicled their illegal activities

[Dan Druff]

Mumbles, read this thread and others involving Antifa. Many otherwise normal lefties here support Antifa, and constantly downplay their violent nature. In fact, you're doing that above.

Your excuse of "there's a lot of women in the crowd, so it's not violent" is laughable. There's also plenty of men, many of whom commit acts of violence, or are looking for the opportunity to attack someone.

Furthermore, these nonviolent women you speak of are very supportive of the violence. In fact, I've seen it on Facebook, where normally docile left-wingers with normal day jobs are cheering on the Antifa violence, feeling that a "revolution" is needed, and therefore violence is necessary.

Unfortunately many on the left have come to see the right as the embodiment of evil, and have convinced themselves that physically attacking people for "spreading hate" (aka being conservative) is necessary in order to save society.

I wish I could say that support of Antifa's violence is limited to extremists, but it's not. The support has become quite mainstream.

On the flip side, very few conservatives support the Proud Boys and their ilk. Yeah, you have a few alt-right idiots online who cheer them on, but the average Republican is disgusted by that stuff.

It's like I've said for years:

Most Republicans believe Democrats are wrong.

Most Democrats believe Republicans are evil.

Thus, its easier to justify attacking people whom you believe are evil rather than just those you disagree with.

And for as long as you have been saying this, you have been wrong. Why? At least since the GOP successfully got a born-again Christian who was solidly against legalized abortion elected president, the majority of Republicans have been conservative Christians, and those folks don’t just think Democrats are “wrong”.

Hell! One of my own close relatives has for years believed that Barack Obama was, and I quote, “evil” because of his stance on abortion. And that same relative praises Trump, and prays for him to weather the political storm visited upon him by the “evil Democrats”. He doesn’t like Trump’s handling of immigration issues, but everything else he either heartily supports or is indifferent to regardless of how many laws Trump may have broken or if he has violated the Constitution.

That being said, I am deducing that when you say “Republican”, you are mostly ignoring the vast majority of actual Republicans these days, and are thinking of economically-conservative-but-non-religious Republicans. Hate to break it to you, buddy, but those folks are marginally relative in the Republican Party these days, and have been for over two decades.

Just because you have a cousin who hates Democrats and calls them evil doesn't mean that he represents the norm.

I am a member of a lot of large Facebook groups, including conservative and liberal leaning ones.

If I post any right/semi-right leaning response to a lefty meme or article, I get bombarded with responses calling me "evil", "racist", "misogynistic", something-"phobic", a "Nazi" (lol), and tons of other names attacking me from the standpoint of being a really bad guy. Keep in mind that my responses are not extreme, nasty, or trolling in any fashion, and in fact resemble my political posts on PFA.

On the flip side, when left-leaning people post dissenting messages in conservative groups, they're called "snowflakes", "cucks", "idiots", "stupid", etc.

See the difference?

While both groups treat dissenting parties poorly, the left attacks from the standpoint of, "You're mean, nasty, racist and evil", whereas conservatives attack from the standpoint of, "You're stupid and overly sensitive."

That's basically what I've seen for years, outliers aside.

This is why the let has been known for trying very hard to censor/deplatform right wing speech/opinion, but the right hasn't been doing the same to the left.