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sazzyesterday at 10:19 AM2 repliesview on HN

By stating "Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism" you create a hard statement: Anything labeled as anti-capitalism is not terrorism.

And far too often people downplay their violence and ruthlessness by using those labels as an excuse.


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em-beeyesterday at 10:25 AM

islam is not terrorism. christianity is not terrorism.

are you arguing that those statements are false?

because terrorist acts have been done in the name of both.

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Wilder7977yesterday at 1:48 PM

Yours is simply a logical fallacy. Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. That's a fact, they are ideologies expressed in a multitude of ways, most of which absolutely pacific. This doesn't mean that it's impossible for terrorist acts to be committed in the name of those ideologies, but also this doesn't make those ideologies inherently equivalent to terrorism.

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