Marrtijn schreef op donderdag 18 september 2025 @ 09:42:
Die originele antifa heeft natuurlijk niets meer te maken met de huidige antifa. De huidige antifascisten zijn in essentie vooral anarchisten en antinationalisten, en dat was natuurlijk geen ding bij de opa's die het strand van Normandië bestormden.
De praktijk vandaag de dag is niet heel veel anders dan in de tijd dat
Antifaschistische Aktion is ontstaan (1918 - lang voor de opa's die het strand van Normandië bestormden), ook toen was fascisme niet aan de macht maar was wel in opkomst.
In essentie bestaat het huidige Antifa net als toen uit mensen die zich niet laten intimideren door geweld vd alt-right, maar bereid zijn klappen te inkasseren en uit te delen, primair ter verdediging van mensen die wat minder heldhaftig zijn.
Via de media horen we veel verhalen over hoe gevaarlijk Antifa is, buiten de VS realiseren de meeste mensen wel dat dat overdreven is, maar we horen zelden het verhaal van de kant van Antifa. In Portland vonden veldslagen plaats die de stad miljoenen kostte om te voorkomen.
Nothing embodied this stage more clearly than an August 2019 Proud Boys rally. The city government decided to wall both sides off from each other using huge numbers of police officers. ...There were still several clashes that day, but it was less violent than past rallies. The whole mess cost the city of Portland at least $3 million. Joe Biggs, an influential leader of the Proud Boys, called the event a success and gloated about costing the city money. He threatened to hold follow-up events with the goal of eventually bankrupting Portland.
How Portland Stopped the Proud Boys (2022)
https://newlinesmag.com/a...d-stopped-the-proud-boys/
...And these events have only grown more violent. In 2020, only 18% of Proud Boy-involved events ended in violence. In 2021, 25% ended in blood and beatings. The range of acceptable targets has broadened as far-right political violence has become normalized. The Proud Boys and other right-wing paramilitary groups have disrupted school board meetings in at least 12 states. They have crashed LGBTQ-oriented book readings at libraries and harassed pride rallies.
But in 2022, they didn’t show up in Portland. It’s worth looking into why. But if you want a quick answer, here it is: Portland fought back.
...The left-wing response to these rallies escalated after May 2017, when former Patriot Prayer marcher and
white supremacist Jeremy Christian stabbed two men to death on a train. The attack started with Christian hurling racial epithets at two teenage girls, one of whom was a Somali Muslim wearing a hijab.
...Hundreds of right-wing street fighters showed up bright and early on Aug. 22 (2020), armed with clubs, knives, firearms, hundreds of cans of mace and paintball guns loaded with frozen paintballs. Portland anti-fascists were initially caught off guard by the size of the rally. When I arrived on scene, they were badly outnumbered. But within two hours, more than 1,000 anti-fascists had flooded the square. A summer fighting the police and federal agents had given Portland a sizable base of people who were used to violence and had access to good defensive gear.
Right-wing brawlers had spent years using mace as an offensive weapon. Once they were outnumbered and the fight turned against them, they started spraying madly in all directions around them. Few had thought to bring gas masks, which most anti-fascists had. After blinding themselves with mace, they broke and ran...
stukje historische achtergrond:
Oregon has been attractive to white nationalists due to its origin as a state that excluded Blacks and minorities.
Although the state's founders prohibited slavery in 1843, it enacted laws that prohibited Black settlers a year later. The 14th Amendment nullified the exclusion laws in 1868, however, they remained part of the state constitution until 1926.
https://abcnews.go.com/US...l-point/story?id=79731161
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