Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social)
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Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    12 hours ago

    Okay, but this is my comment:

    Your average age of the original antifa is 98 years old - WW2 veterans

    As far as I know, the first people to physically fight against fascism are WW2 veterans. Of course, antifa does not imply only physical fighting, but in context here of the US Govt labeling antifa a violent terrorist organization, it makes sense to bring up the first physical antifa fighters were fighting at the US Govt’s demand against fascism.

    • cmbabul@slrpnk.net
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Technically the first person to beat the shit out of Gabriele D’Annunzio was the first person the physically fight fascism

      • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        12 hours ago

        WW1 wasn’t fought against fascism. Italy wasn’t fascist then either

        From your own linked source above:

        fascism, political ideology and mass movement that dominated many parts of central, southern, and eastern Europe between 1919 and 1945

        Italy’s fascist movement also began after World War I, although it achieved power in the mid-1920

        Fascist parties and movements came to power in several countries between 1922 and 1945

        (For context, WW1 ended in 1918)

        Although I’m sure many WW1 vets later became antifascists.