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Calling yourself an anti-fascist is either (a) resigning to those people always driving the bus (why not call your movement after what you want as opposed to what you don't want?) or (b) thinking life is like V for Vendetta or Pink Floyd's The Wall. 20 years of people who could have been behind a movement for positive social change crying wolf is one reason why we are in this mess.

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What a broad brush to use about the antiwar movement, antisemitism, anti-narcotic and anti-drug campaigns, anti-suffragism, anti-statism, antismoking, antisalooners, Anti-Catholicism, antitrust laws, and of course antidisestablishmentarianism.

As well as many conservatives like Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, and 'liberals' like FDR so-called because of an explicit rejection of socialism, not to mention the Republican who ran against him in 1940

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Willkie

who pivoted from opposing the New Deal to being the US's diplomatic vanguard for WWII.

Yeah man, let me make my progressive social movement while under the rule of people who are happy to use violence and other nefarious means to suppress any sort of positive change that threatens their power. If only people had made movements against the Iraq war and bank bailouts in 08, things would be so much different now.

Same as its ever been.

Back in the 1960s you had Jewish people who learned something in general from how their own people were oppressed and went down to the US South and gave their lives for the civil rights movement.

The author doesn't want to face any consequences for his activism but this essay makes it clear you have to take your lumps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)

A woman who rides horses at our barn used to run the soup kitchen in Ithaca but she got arrested and spent time in federal prison because she crashed the gate at a facility where they store nuclear weapons.

There's a big difference between that and the people who share hateful memes on social and think they are 'activists'.

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