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This is one of the cons of non-discrimination laws. We can't tell people like that why they got fired.

Something tells me that if I could tell someone I fired them because of their support for antifa or the alt-right, that evil nonsense would bleed itself out of our society in a short time.

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#bothsides, amiright? On one hand you have the continuation of a 150 year old white supremacist terror movement whose adherents have recently and repeatedly murdered dozens of people solely because of who they are, and on the other you have those scary people with the masks who will throw a milk shake at someone, just because that person is a fascist.

It's really too bad that we can't just empower indifferent moderates like yourself to sort things out in a totally even-handed and proportionate manner.

I think you're minimizing the impact of antifa psychos. And I'm no moderate. Antifa is explicitly about violence, racism, and is associated with the Dayton Ohio shooter as well as the recent attacks on the ICE facilities.

Antifa is literally about opposing fascism, which in America is a violent white supremacist and misogynist movement. When you say that they are "associated with the Dayton Ohio shooter" you mean that alt-right propagandists have found tweets from him that express negative sentiment toward fascists. I am now seeing that an armed man actually associated with a local antifa group recently got himself killed after he "tossed lit objects at vehicles and buildings, causing one car fire, and unsuccessfully tried to ignite a propane tank," so yes, you're absolutely right, they've escalated from milkshakes to mild property damage. Definitely an equal threat to the specific rightwing movement responsible for the vast majority of domestic terrorism in this century.

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