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Why do people bother with antifa moniker anyways? Is one syllable worth the loss in clarity that would come from having your opposition be forced to speak the word anti-fascist? To rule out willful ignorance of the public to discount "antifa" (strangely pronounced with the accent on the i, undermining the reception of the "anti" prefix) as some foreign set of concepts when in reality it is the basis of this nation.

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It's because saying you're anti-anti-fascist would make you sound like an asshole.

This lets them pretend they're talking about something different, but all the dogs hear the whistle.

Naming is irrelevant. You can make a group named anti-evil do anything. They would say "Are you anti-anti-evil? Are you for evil? What is wrong with you?"

Until reading your comment, I didn't know that was what Antifa was short for. That's probably why they don't use the full name.

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