A lot of these claims are subtly different from the ones I made (not claiming that you were necessarily asserting that I agreed with them).
Engage in the same behaviour if given power is factually untrue
I wouldn’t endorse this statement either. Left and right fascism express themselves differently. So I definitely wouldn’t predict the ‘same behaviour’.
Anti-fascists are a wide coalition consisting of a wide array of political views
There is a wide coalition against facism, but they don’t call themselves antifa. It’s a much narrower group that adopts that label.
I do not think that if the right loses the next election, that the left would be equally fascist
I don’t expect that either. But they may still ‘lock-in’ some of the backsliding which would become the new standard from which behaviour is measured, enabling continued escalation from there.
The claim I made was “‘anti-facist activists’ are often just as fascist as anyone on the right” and I believe that’s true. The impact of an election depends on the choices of a much broader set of people.
The current adminisatration flooded mineapolis with poorly trained thugs who made it unsafe to go outside as a non-white person. I do not believe that a President AOC or whoever will take actions of equivalent damage.
The damage that an action causes in the long-term has relatively little correlation with the damage that an action causes in the short-term. I’m not claiming ‘equivalently damaging short-term effects’.
A lot of these claims are subtly different from the ones I made (not claiming that you were necessarily asserting that I agreed with them).
I wouldn’t endorse this statement either. Left and right fascism express themselves differently. So I definitely wouldn’t predict the ‘same behaviour’.
There is a wide coalition against facism, but they don’t call themselves antifa. It’s a much narrower group that adopts that label.
I don’t expect that either. But they may still ‘lock-in’ some of the backsliding which would become the new standard from which behaviour is measured, enabling continued escalation from there.
The claim I made was “‘anti-facist activists’ are often just as fascist as anyone on the right” and I believe that’s true. The impact of an election depends on the choices of a much broader set of people.
The damage that an action causes in the long-term has relatively little correlation with the damage that an action causes in the short-term. I’m not claiming ‘equivalently damaging short-term effects’.