Allahpundit:
This may be the first time in TV history that someone from the Southern Poverty Law Center was booked to argue with the far left instead of the far — and usually not-so-far — right. Good for them for doing it, though. The counterpoints to this Antifa idiocy are more effective here coming from a liberal than from a conservative. If it’s a conservative versus Antifa, that’s standard left/right noise to the average viewer. If it’s the SPLC versus Antifa, that’s a signal that Antifa should be considered a radical outfit. Which, of course, they are.
The most pitiful thing about Bray’s apologetics is how obviously they mirror alt-right and traditional Nazi arguments. We need a muscular response to defend good people from this extreme threat, huffs Bray. That’s what brownshirts said about Bolshevists in 1930s Germany and what the alt-right says about Antifa and Black Lives Matter now. Asked about censorship, Bray insists that Antifa opposes any governmentefforts to silence speech. Of course they do; that’s the politic line to take for PR purposes when you don’t control the government and are seeking power. A government run by Antifa sympathizers would obviously censor “fascist” speech, however that’s defined, with the same logic they use to justify riots at Berkeley to keep people like Ann Coulter from speaking. The alt-right also styles itself a “free speech” movement because it’s in the same position as Antifa — eager to gain adherents and aware that laying bare its most totalitarian impulses right now would make recruiting harder. Put fascists, whether right-wing or left, in charge of the government and see what happens to freedom of speech.
The other thing Bray has in common with his enemies is needing the public to believe that the threat from the other side is greater than it is. To hear him tell it, the neo-Nazi menace has reached such proportions in America that a national left-wing gang willing to fight it in the streets is urgently needed.
First the left creates the threat, then they ride to the rescue to “defend” against it. The Nazis did the exact same thing. Can’t liberals think of any innovative ways to wrest power from whom the citizens have chosen?
So dose this intellectial egghead arove of these cowards who hide their faces with Bandanahs using pepper spray of a elderly man to they approve of these brownshirts attacking peaceful Trump Supporters? WHAT A TOTAL IDIOT
Yvette Felarca is the leader of an Antifa group, BAMN (By Any Means Necessary).
She assaulted someone.
In court during her arraignment, she described her actions as a form of self-defense, and therefore
So, if she thinks someone is a “nazi” (someone she disagrees with) she thinks she has a right to hit them!
And she has not lost her job, she is still teaching children.
Nazis are something quite specific. A lot of people “disagree” with Nazis the same way they “disagree” with militant Islamic extremists. And they worry more about Nazis, because they’ve noticed America seems to be a lot more susceptible to that particular mental disorder.
Blame Trump. He doesn’t seem to recognize what the symptoms are when he sees them. All through his campaign, he looked the other way. His words promoted anger. On occasion, he even promoted violence. Were you not listening to what he was saying at his rallies?
I think ANTIFA and the left’s support of their fascist tactics resolves, once and for all, the question as to whether the Nazis were right or left. They were DEFINITELY left wing, just like now.
@Greg:
What are the words you understand that Trump would have to put together in a statement that would make you understand that he has denounced racism, Nazism, white supremacy and violence… from WHEREVER it originates?
Daily Caller:
At one point after she incited others to attack the lone male, there were 6 adult males with weapons racing up to strike him.
I’m glad she’s been charged.
All he was doing was walking with a flag.
his flag was torn off the pole leaving him with a long stick he started having to use for defense.
I hope she goes to jail, re-education, rehab and even community service.
But only after due process.
And due process was something she found unimportant.
Shame on her.
We are a nation of LAWS, not MEN.
@Bill… Deplorable Me, #5:
He should have denounced them immediately, rather than waiting until intense negative feedback finally convinced him to revise his message. I think he cranks out his messages based on a political weather vane, not an internal moral compass. Either you have one, or you don’t. Those who don’t support him observed this critical absence very early on. Others still haven’t noticed.
@Greg:
I don’t know how more “immediately” he could get than his denunciation of the violence as it was happening.
Oh… YOU think he should have, as Obama always did, pick a side and only denounce the violence committed by those that were not leftist. No, Trump did what a leader does… he denounced ALL the violence, ALL the racism, ALL the fascism and ALL the bigotry. Trump does not speak Obama-speak, nor does he support racism and violence as a political tool. Of course, no one is using violence in Trump’s support or in support of the Constitution. Only by the left.
Funny that Trump said we should all come together and unite, that we are all the same… AMERICANS… and we should all embrace peace and denounce violence. Yet, you leftists call this “divisive”. I’m pretty sure you have nothing else in mind but disrupting the government because you fielded a real turd of a candidate and lost.
Yvette Felaeca needs to be on the FBI’s Most Wanted List and ANTIFA needs to be declared Domestic Terrorists along with BLM and the NBPP
@Greg: #7
There isnt a thing Trump could do or say that they would accept and you know it.
@Greg:
Antifa is something quite specific. Only you are too damn stupid to comprehend that. And Nazis did not cover their faces. But the one thing Hitler did manage to do is get the young adults/college students of Germany to raid the libraries and burn all books that Hitler ordered them to do. How is Antifa any different? Hitler banned free speech, Antifa wants to ban free speech. And why do they cover their faces? I suspect to prevent their Republican parents from cutting off college expense money to them.
You mean like “they bring a knife, we bring a gun?” Remind me again, when did Trump say that?
Violence against who? The police, as Obama did? Yeah, Gullible Greggie, Obama incited violence against police officers but in your damaged brain, you can’t comprehend that either.
Trump denounced ALL the violence, on both sides, be they alt-right or the damn communists.
You don’t think, Gullible Greggie, any more than any other programmed robot does. You simply emote what every bilge you have been programmed with. You’re a damn Socialist who supports violence.
And an idiot.
@retire05: The victims are the professors students, he most likely teaches his twisted BS, so the kids walk out of college 100K or better in debt and know nothing about their major. Is there is a job outside of rioting for Soros and his ilk. When they run into real resistance there is no reset to get extra lives like in mamas basement.
@kitt, #10:
They’ll most likely accept what he says when he decides it’s time to resign.
@Greg: Resign for what? Sick of seeing crybabies everyday? I don’t think so.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: Careful you dont want to shatter poor lil greggies unicornfart world. He can relax the super genius Maxine Waters will get that nasty old Trump.
In 8 years he might catch on.
Off her medication? Alas, there aren’t enough butterfly nets.
@Greg:
Yes, they are liberals pretending like they’re not.
OMG, Greg, Dims have been nazi’s long before Trump ever ran for office.
@Greg:
Maybe just low on carbs a nice meal and a glass of wine.
Whats your excuse, did your reality check bounce again?
Seems Harvard as early as 2002 was begging for a race war, if you dont support genocide you are a white supremacist . Seems a bit extremist
quote from Harvard magazine,
http://harvardmagazine.com/2002/09/abolish-the-white-race.html
Perhaps the horrid white supremacists are just survivalists. Perhaps it is self defense.
Sure seems racists and bigots are tenured.
@Greg: You are going to get carpel tunnel grasping so desperately at those straws.
Just another intellectial egghead with their walnut sized brain shooting off their piehole and proving why these liberal university and collage professors are so darn stupid