Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Torrocca wrote:
Considering these senators are playing the tried and tested, "Anti-fascists are the real fascists!!1!" card, I don't think you're going to get a good answer to that first one from them.
Technically speaking, though, you could classify AntiFA as terrorists because they use violence to achieve a political goal, AKA to prevent the surge of Fascism. So, technically, terrorism's a descriptor.
Just because individuals and small groups of people calling themselves AntiFA have attacked people who aren't Fascist doesn't mean most of AntiFA doesn't know what Fascism is, FYI.
But is violence alone enough to classify a group as terrorist?
No. In any case, trying to call Antifa as a whole anything is pretty slippery. Individual Antifa organisations have no connecting bodies and may or may not share ideology, to say nothing of tactics. It's better to call individual organisations as terroristic or criminal organisations, such as Rose City Antifa.