• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    3 hours ago

    And they also attached the label “far left” to the name Antifa, as though being anti-fascist is somehow now beyond the pale. And in doing that, they inadvertently, I think, legitimize the government’s effort to take the First Amendment activities, to take political opinions that are anti-fascist, that are pro-democracy, that are pro-dissent, that are anti—ethnic cleansing, and make them suspect, and therefore make them vulnerable to prosecution in exactly this way.