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Semantic Is Pedantic (infosec.pub)

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[–] banause@feddit.org 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You forget one thing. Antifa literally only means exactly that. There is no collective. You are antifa if you say: "I oppose facism." That's it. There is no group, no organization, no culture around it.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

You forget one thing. Antifa literally only means exactly that.

"Pro-life" also only means exactly that. But that doesn't mean that whoever adopts that label actually embodies that.

Same goes for antifa. What matters is what they do. Eric Clanton can self-identify as Antifa all he wants as he bashes people with a bike lock, but that doesn't make it so.

By the same token, someone can do plenty to oppose fascism, without ever identifying as "antifa".

What matters is what they do, not what they call themselves. Sometimes, the self-label is accurate, but sometimes it's not, and ultimately, the label is irrelevant.