this is unrelated to anything posted on fedi rn (aka this is not meta) but here’s a gentle reminder that if your antifascist opinions happen to include something along the lines of “death to all fascists” you are unfortunately also one

there’s a loud opinion people have of “but the problem with fascism is that it rejects any opinions that aren’t theirs!”, and while yes, that’s the definition of fascism, “death to all fascists” quickly becomes a slippery slope of repeatedly redefining what fascists are that everyone that don’t fully align with you become fascists to you too.

antifa should be about stopping fascists from gaining power– rightists allude to the thought that leftists were fascists for a reason (the whole “they’re turning kids woke” is partially a subtle message of “they only want leftists in this world”)

if you’re antifa you need to accept the definitional facts: every single possible opinion will always exist at every single point in time simultaneously. some of them are extremely bad. fascism aims to control what opinions get to be expressed.

prevent that from happening instead, because remember, you can’t kill an idea, even if you kill the believers