re: #172 Nyet

US Army are not a bunch of vigilantes.

If you support vigilantism, it’s your right, just don’t complain about KKK’s vigilantism after you’ve made your choice.

I did not say the US Army was a group of vigilantes. I said they were violent against fascists. I don’t think they took Normandy by stuffing flowers in the gun barrels of Nazis.

I don’t support vigilantism. Lemme go back and read again what I wrote:

The term has been conflated with the German group that formed with violence against fascism supporters as one of its aims.

I’m not sure the original definition of the term is worth trying to salvage; I stick to “anti-fascist” rather than “antifa” to avoid the confusion.

Nope. No support for vigilantism there.

Some of those groups are violent, some are not.
en.wikipedia.org

As I noted though, the term is muddled enough it isn’t worth trying to salvage (it has existed since the 1920’s).

Nope. No support for vigilantism there.

I don’t know who Kita is (aside from that tweet above), but that is the way I’ve seen the term most often used recently (as violent opponents to fascists).

I guess that makes the US Army “Antifa,” since they were also violent opponents to fascists. /s

(see again /s)

Nope. No support for vigilantism there.

Perhaps you can point me to where I said “I support vigilantes.”

And yes, I’ll complain about the Klan’s vigilantism, as I don’t support vigilantism.