Eh, here is the thing. You said this was a totally even thread until some Antifa apologists showed up. That’s bullshit. And Your focus on free speech is forced. Hey, let’s try this... lets find examples of Nazi Antifa! Whoops, can’t find any. You are literally going right at the “mission” of one side.
Listen, I’ve already said these Antifa people seem like violent assholes.
But you aren’t going to get me saying that they are worse than groups like white power folks or proud boys or whatever. Not only is their origin totally different (seems Antifa came about as an anti-Nazi movement, so as an actual response to assholes) but their history isn’t the same either. When you are comparing to right wing nutjobs, who have been responsible for ten times as many American deaths over the last thirty or so years, and you look at the idealogicical background, where you talk millions dead (including an entire swath of my own family), they just don’t compare. (Note for the logically impaired... “not worse” =/= “better”)
Again; these Antifa dickheads who are attacking people or whatever are douchebags. Full stop. Giant douchebags. They aren’t worse than the right wing douchebags. It seems both sides are intent on violence, which sucks, and sure as hell doesn’t further any reasonable, rational discussion about the issues we face.
Ultimately threads like this are dumb... they just dissolve into “well, THIS side is better than THAT side!” and “No, THAT side is worse than THIS side!”... often unsupported by anything other than emotion and a couple of click bait videos of some extremist punching someone or getting punched. It’s pointless. I think most of the posters here think this shit from both sides is ridiculous.
