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In reply to the discussion: Sure as shit Trump has put into motion a decree that any protester against trump or trump policy will be labeled [View all]dpibel
(3,683 posts)39. What is the current meaning of the term?
You seem to believe that words have one meaning, fixed forever.
I'm not quite sure that's the way language works.
I'm pretty convinced that the current vernacular treats the term "antifa" as meaning "anti-fascist."
You can be sad as ever you want that this term once meant "commie moofoo bad bad people."
But if it actually doesn't mean that anymore, I think you are clobbering a deceased equine, and doing it to no particularly good effect.
Obviously, as is almost always the case, your mileage varies very much.
One. More. Time.
If the people who are currently using the word, on both sides, do not mean it to mean what you insist it means, it is entirely within the realm of possibility that you, not they, are the party out of step.
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Sure as shit Trump has put into motion a decree that any protester against trump or trump policy will be labeled [View all]
Klarkashton
Wednesday
OP
Jack with Turning Point USA, (didn't catch his last name), says the insidious Antifa has been around for 100 years.
tetedur
Wednesday
#2
Actually Antifaschistische Aktion was formed in 1932 by the Communist Party of Germany with support of Stalin.
WarGamer
Wednesday
#14
Just like the gun humpers coming along to split hairs about types of guns after our
travelingthrulife
Wednesday
#16
Most of the idiotic followers of Trump don't understand what "antifa" is an abbreviation for...
AntiFascist
Wednesday
#12
Trump is right but he doesn't know it. All of us protesters are definitely "ANTI-FASCIST" !!!
Jack Valentino
Wednesday
#19
I will be in my home in SW Ohio Sunday, but I promise to shower naked in silent solidarity.
Xavier Breath
Thursday
#31
As a Protestant, Trump is a protester. If he doesn't like protestation, perhaps he should embrace Catholicism.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
Thursday
#32