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Saturday, August 19, 2017

Enemies of enemies aren't necessarily friends

Fighting Nazis doesn’t make ‘antifa’ the good guys by Jonah Goldberg warns us that those who oppose some things we oppose may not be on "our side." Here's an excerpt (read it all):
The antifa crowd has a very similar agenda with regard to American liberalism. These goons and thugs oppose free speech, celebrate violence, despise dissent and have little use for anything else in the American political tradition. But many liberals, particularly in the media, are victims of the same kind of confusion that vexed so much of American liberalism in the 20th century. Because antifa suddenly has the (alt-)right enemies, they must be the good guys. 
They’re not. And that’s why this debate is so toxically stupid. Fine, antifa isn’t as bad as the KKK. Who cares? Since when is being less bad than the Klan a major moral accomplishment?

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