When Antifa breaks store windows and beats up people, why is that not fascism?

[Blackrook]

Antifa uses the same tactics that the SA brownshirts used to bring down the Weimar Republic.

It is clearly fascist, and yet they call themselves "anti-fascist" and somehow it makes it okay.

 

[francoHFW]

They just have counter-demonstrations when Nazis get together hasn't happened lately has it. Maybe they grew up all 30 of them....

 

[beautress]

Antifa uses the same tactics that the SA brownshirts used to bring down the Weimar Republic.

It is clearly fascist, and yet they call themselves "anti-fascist" and somehow it makes it okay.

Projection is the favorite tool of gotcha politics. It's meant to disguise their own wrongdoing and blame the same on someone else, generally their opposition. When they carry it into strong-arm tactics, it becomes a little clearer what projection is.

 

[Bleipriester]

Antifa uses the same tactics that the SA brownshirts used to bring down the Weimar Republic.

It is clearly fascist, and yet they call themselves "anti-fascist" and somehow it makes it okay.

Please take care for correct historic parallels. The SA did not "bring down" the Weimar Republic. They used to get into trouble with the communists, instead.

 

[Blackrook]

Antifa uses the same tactics that the SA brownshirts used to bring down the Weimar Republic.

It is clearly fascist, and yet they call themselves "anti-fascist" and somehow it makes it okay.

Please take care for correct historic parallels. The SA did not "bring down" the Weimar Republic. They used to get into trouble with the communists, instead.

The SA broke the law, and the police stood there and did not stop them. This show of weakness by the Weimar Republic discredited it and helped to bring it down.

 

[deanrd]

Antifa uses the same tactics that the SA brownshirts used to bring down the Weimar Republic.

It is clearly fascist, and yet they call themselves "anti-fascist" and somehow it makes it okay.

Clearly, it's those calls for violence. It helps identify the fascists:

 

[Bleipriester]

Antifa uses the same tactics that the SA brownshirts used to bring down the Weimar Republic.

It is clearly fascist, and yet they call themselves "anti-fascist" and somehow it makes it okay.

Please take care for correct historic parallels. The SA did not "bring down" the Weimar Republic. They used to get into trouble with the communists, instead.

The SA broke the law, and the police stood there and did not stop them. This show of weakness by the Weimar Republic discredited it and helped to bring it down.

NSDAP and associated organizations formed a movement of 12 million people in the Weimar Republic. What police force can stop them? In fact, the SA brought the NSDAP messages to the streets. Later, when they demanded their fair share in the government, they were disbanded, their leaders killed. Both the reds and the browns were not known for total adherence to law.
However, the Weimar Republic was not ended by force but by its own democratic tools.