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WillPostForFoodtoday at 1:37 AM2 repliesview on HN

Antifa is also a noun describing a group of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)


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wat10000today at 1:56 AM

Who is in that group?

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jMylestoday at 3:23 AM

Wikipedia doesn't use the phrase "group of people", and cites a symposium as a source for the assessment that "it is a highly decentralized array of autonomous groups in the United States," so, I'm not sure this advances the discussion.

It's obvious that the vast, overwhelming majority of people consider themselves anti-fascist. So I really don't think it possible for this term to ever actually describe a particular group of people, excluding other groups of people.

These attempts to shoehorn the word "antifa" into some kind of distinct organization seem like they are just a lingual change to make it more difficult to use this phrase, or more difficult to advance critiques of fascist tendencies wherever they may appear.