Taken from a post by "Brad" (rest of the name blurred out)
I've been weirded out by a lot of things this year, but "Anti-fascist" as a collective description is a new one.
"Anti-fascist" shouldn't be a movement or a group. It should be your default state. You're SUPPOSED to be anti-fascist.
It shouldn't be "Nazis clashed with anti-fascists". It should be "Nazis clashed with people, because people are supposed to fucking clash with Nazis".
They weren't "Alt-Right". They were literally holding Swastika flags and throwing Roman salutes. They're fucking Nazis.
You supposed to be anti fucking that.
I preserved the typos and all. Well said. This is the most absurd thing about the Trump era:
we have a special term for people who oppose fascism.
I've been participating in a lot of poo-flinging on the Internet in the wake of the horror show in Charlottesville. Conservatives watched the same rally I did. They watched the same Nazi flags, they saw the same Nazi salutes, they heard the same Nazi chants, and they watched the same Nazi terrorist kill an American and maim a score of others.
After watching all of that, conservatives have decided that the thing that angers them most is the counter-protesters. They watched Nazis riot in an American city. They watched a Nazi terrorist kill, and the thing that angers them the most are the people who were protesting the Nazis.
Not the Nazis. They aren't complaining about the Nazis. Not the act of terror committed in the name of racist ideology, no the thing that made them angry enough to speak out were the people who were there to protest Nazis.
You know what? I no longer care what excuses you use.
You sided with Nazis.
End of story.
In a conflict between Nazis and anyone, it is not OK to side with the Nazis unless the Nazis happen to be fighting a race of aliens that plans to kill and eat all of humanity. Otherwise, if you get angry at people for opposing Nazis, then at best you are a Nazi sympathizer if not an actual Nazi yourself.
Opposing literal fucking Nazis should not be controversial. It should be the most uncontroversial thing imaginable. It was the one thing the West and the Soviet bloc nations agreed on during the Cold War. Fighting Nazis was America's (and the Soviets') claim to moral authority on the world stage.
Not anymore.
The president of the United Fucking States is using false equivalence arguments in defense of Nazis, while countless American conservatives on the Internet are yelling and crying and gnashing their teeth over how angry they are at people who opposed Nazis.
Fucking fuck fuckity fuck-fuck.