2026-04-15 19:09 UTC
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@FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 19:18
You can be anti-fascist and call yourself as such (though, I'd argue that everyone is anti-fascist by default). Just don't use 'antifa' The term 'antifa' specifically is a right-wing meme that's being intentionally loaded with a bunch of negative connotations. This meme exists to support scaring the labor class voters away from the left, dividing the class against itself and to attack the monied elites who support left-wing causes by using the legal apparatuses that were created post-9/11 to target 'terrorism'. By accepting and propagating that term you're helping the right to apply their memetically poisoned label to their enemies. We have a whole generation of Americans who suffered and died fighting fascism. We call them the Greatest Generation. Patriots, heroes, and veterans... not antifa. Think of 'antifa' like 'woke' and 'DEI'. They create these terms and load them down with a bunch of connotations so people can be bigoted or fascists without having to confront that fact. There is no antifa.