Another word for hypocrite. Examples include woke college students raging against capitalism with a smart phone in one hand and a Starbucks latte in the other. Limousine liberal famous actors lecturing the public about climate change and inequality while traveling the world on private jets and hoarding their wealth in overseas tax shelters. Leftist college professors who shame their students with accusations of white privilege but live in snow white suburbs and send their kids to snow white school districts. Western feminists and LGBTQ activists who stand ready to burn down a local Christian bakery but don’t seem to give a shit when oppressed women and LGBTQ people are imprisoned, raped or lynched in Muslim majority countries around the world. The list is endless
I stand for everything Inclaim to oppose. I must be a leftist.
When done correctly, principled anti-fascism utilizes constitutionally protected free speech and the right to protest to impose a cost on those who publicly endorse white supremacy. Groups such as Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, Aryan Nation activists and Skinheads can all expect firm opposition if they choose to hold an event or otherwise attempt to intimidate and threaten people of color.
In practice....Antifa activists in The United States have proven to be nothing more than whiny, intolerant costumed children lashing out at anyone and anything they don’t like. Impulsive and Intellectually lazy, American Antifa wannabes lack either the will or the ability to learn the philosophical underpinnings of their white supremist opponents. As such, they simply can’t tell the difference between a member of a hate group calling for a race war against blacks and jews, and a Republican calling for lower taxes and deregulation. The result is embarrassing public tantrum throwing rather than effective anti-fascist protest. Having given themselves license to publicly excoriate anything they don’t like, they have become symbols of ignorance and intolerance emblematic of an emotionally fragile, thin-skinned generation of young people entitled to be neither offended nor challenged. They are a pathetic, cos-play imitation of anti-fascism and deserve only to be laughed at or forgotten altogether.
I fight intolerance by exemplifying intolerance. I must be an American Antifa wannabe.