Rick Fischer
Aug 22, 2017 · 2 min read

There’s a lot of sleight-of-hand going on here. AntiFa has been a constant source of violent anarchy for at least a couple of years. Riots, beatings at peaceful rallies, attacks on police, looting, burning, destruction.

Pell joins those who demand that our public leaders only condemn violence from the White Supremacist/Nazi groups, but must NOT condemn violence from the Anarchist/Communist groups. I’ve yet to hear a Democrat leader condemn AntiFa riots.

Pell Joins those who claim that condemning violence from both extremes is the same as supporting violence from the Supremacist/Nazi extreme. How is this mystifying leap of logic made? Because they support the violence from the Left as legitimate.

The rationale goes like this — 1) The Right is abhorrent, therefore opposition to the Right is good; 2) AntiFa and BLM oppose the Right, therefore AntiFa and BLM are good; 3) The Supremacists/Nazis are violent, therefore violence in opposition is legitimate; 4) ipso facto condemning AntiFa and BLM violence is wrong.

Besides the obvious, that street violence is uncivilized and unacceptable, the flaw here is that AntiFa and BLM started engaging in street violence more than a year before the Supremacists/Nazis took to the streets in opposition. Until then, AntiFa and BLM violence had to be content with pounding the skulls of whites at Trump rallies or campus speeches or inner cities. We have been witnessing Occupy violence, campus violence, inner city violence, BLM violence for a long time before we started seeing the Nazi flag on the streets.

The Left’s justification, I suppose, is that they were forced into street violence because of the Nazi violence they knew was going to come eventually in the near future. Preemptive opposition? Consequence precedes it’s cause?

Another flaw in Pell’s argument is that Supremacists and Nazis have been demonstrating for decades, ever since they won that right at Skokie, Illinois. They demonstrate, nobody pays attention, they go home and are forgotten. No violence. What has been different the last few months? The AntiFa have showed up to violently clash with the Nazis. Anarchy demands violence, uses violence, and AntiFa anarchists want violence. Isn’t the connection obvious? No AntiFa, no violence; AntiFa, violence.

Pell’s father escaped Poland. Who was he escaping from, Nazis or Soviet Communists? Which would he say was worse for Poland, Hitler or Stalin? The violent Nazis or the violent Communists? Any patriotic Pole would say “to hell with them both”. Trump too says both sides are contemptible; Pell and the Left say Oh, no, only the Nazis are bad.

AntiFa may be violent extremists, but they’re our violent extremists, right Pell? They’re “good”, they’re “on the right side of history”, because they crush the skulls you want crushed, because their violence is “going high”.

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