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In reply to the discussion: Yes, Antifa Is Very Dangerous -- But Not To Fascists - by Gene Lyons [View all]politicat
(9,808 posts)24. Six legs excellent! Eight legs get the planet!
(I like anything that eats mosquitos. Yay, spiders!) I see your sarcasm and decline acceptance, unopened. Thanks anyway.
No, it's just a reality. Gene/Eugene denotes a certain generation -- probably not a teenager in 2017. Lyons in Arksansas is likely to get kinder treatment than Littlebird or Lopez or Lakshmi. It's generally more or less unconscious, but names carry privilege and power. Just look at the statistics on response to resumés for Alyshia Jackson versus Alice Jackson or Israel Cruz versus Israel Stein.
There's a huge difference between counter-revolutionary and short-sighted privilege. This guy: the latter.
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Yes, Antifa Is Very Dangerous -- But Not To Fascists - by Gene Lyons [View all]
DonViejo
Sep 2017
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If you use violence in some "leftist" cause, you might as well as join the KKK...
Thomas Hurt
Sep 2017
#1
You are comparing Barack Obama to Richard Nixon on a forum designed to support Democrats?
Expecting Rain
Sep 2017
#9
You forced an out-of-context incident into a thread where it was irrelevant...
Expecting Rain
Sep 2017
#16
Exactly. In just the same way Bernie Sanders could have punked O'Reilly...
Expecting Rain
Sep 2017
#22
So now we add people with WASPy names to the list of the privileged along with...
Expecting Rain
Sep 2017
#25
The 62 million who thought it would be the bees knees to put one in charge of our country.
HughBeaumont
Sep 2017
#33
Thanks for all the replies, are there any organizations other than Antifa that are anti fascist?
Not Ruth
Sep 2017
#43
Yooooouuuuu rreally don't want me to toss paint on those sacred cows . . .
HughBeaumont
Sep 2017
#44
I'd hope "dedicated and armed communists" would be stopped in infancy as well, being little better
Marengo
Sep 2017
#47
The fascists, Donald Trump, Jamie Dimon and all the other oligarchs......
socialist_n_TN
Sep 2017
#50
Spare me the propaganda. In my youth I was involved with Bob Avakian's clown circus. As an adult...
Marengo
Sep 2017
#53
The Maoists of course disagree, considering themselves the only true ideological descendants...
Marengo
Sep 2017
#59
Another pseudo intellectual pansy who fancies himself the keeper of "the right way" to do things
Downtown Hound
Sep 2017
#54