Not when he plagiarized speeches from better people

Sure, antifa is just an idea a bad one at that too... I guess ISIS was just an idea too.

@Tom81 no, ISIS is very much a group with a stated goal and official leadership. Antifa literally means "anti-fascist" and is therefore just a viewpoint becoming a movement. It's like being a white supremacist - you hold a particular viewpoint or ethos, but your can't say white supremacy is an actual group. You can say the Proud Boys are a white supremacist group, and perhaps you can say ShutDownDC is an antifa group. That doesn't make the idea an actual corporeal group.

@JacksonNought no you can't say Proud Boys are a white supremacist group because its led by an Afro-Cuban, has black members and even gay members (and they don't care about colour, or being white). But you could say Antifa is a terrorist cell group similar in tactics to Al Qeada.

Hamas is also just a bad idea.

@JacksonNought as usual, you're oh so relevant to the conversation . Can't dispute facts, so resulting to petty, humourless insults again?
Trying to defend antifa...
It's a movement, a group of the ill-bred, uneducated, drug addicted, mentally disturbed trash. Are you part of it? Most of us have seen their mugshots, why don't you upload yours to your bio instead of hiding behind a random picture (from the pirates of the Carribbean? Maybe spend more time with a history book than your Disney movies)
You can be against fascism and communism. That's where I stand. I see neo-nazi skinheads and antifa on the same bottom rung of society (only I know antifa wouldn't be winning any fights between the two groups).

@Tom81

It's a movement

There, now you get it!

@JacksonNought Social movements are defined as networks of informal interactions between a plurality of individuals, groups and/or organizations, engaged in political or cultural conflicts, on the basis of shared collective identities...
So groups and/or organisations... like antifa.
Do you get it? A movement isn't 'just an idea'.

@Tom81 ooh, you were so close!

Informal interactions between individuals, groups, and/or organizations - yes! For example, the group in the article - ShutDownDC - is a group involved in the ANTIFA movement. The KKK is a group involved in the white supremacy movement.

Then you lost it. Is ANTIFA an organization? Is there an actual centralized ANTIFA? Is there leadership structure? Membership initiation? No. ANTIFA is not an organization.

For example, take the Proud Boys. They have an actual founder. An official leader. A mission statement. Handed down decrees. Last month Tara LaRosa started the Proud Girls, and the official Proud Boys communications came out condemning her for riding their coattails and making a mockery of them, as they are extremely and proudly sexist. That is a real organization.

Here's a good analogy for you. One of the reason Right-Wingers are so adamant about defining ANTIFA as an actual organization is so they can label it a terrorist organization, and therefore anyone protesting or expressing anti-fascist and Left-Wing ideals can be summarily arrested and thrown in jail and stripped of civil rights for terroristic actions. Let's look at a similar "movement" - Pro-Life. You have rallies and protests, such as March for Our Lives. You also have groups expressing Pro-Life values committing terroristic actions - doctors have been murdered, clinics have been bombed, people have been kidnapped, etc... so, if ANTIFA is an organization under your definition, then Pro-Life is also an organization, and can also be labeled as a terrorist organization. So I guess if anyone expressed Pro-Life ideals, they should be labeled a terrorist.

Does that sound about right?

@JacksonNought no, it doesn't sound right at all.
Is ANTIFA an organization? Yes.
Is there an actual centralized ANTIFA? Centralised no, localised yes
Is there leadership structure? Yes, you have people who have claimed to be chapter leaders or commanders. It functions more like a terrorist CELL than a national group.
Membership initiation? I'm sure you have to prove yourself before they let you come and join...
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@Tom81 is Rose City Antifa an organization? Yes. Is Antifa an organization? No.

Is Focus on the Family an organization? Yes. Is Pro-Life an organization? No.

@JacksonNought

I bet he remembers where China is.

@guru he can sniff it out