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No, being that the KKK is a domestic terrorist organization.

One citation of many possible regarding police malfeasance: https://theintercept.com/2020/06/02/history-united-states-go...

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There is no such thing as a 'domestic terrorist organization'. It is illegal to classify any domestic organization as terrorist. That's why the KKK isn't one, and it's why Antifa isn't one either, Trump's blustering about it notwithstanding.

Antifa is considered a domestic terrorist organization to the trump admin.

Even though being antifa is simply being against fascism.

It's not though. Not in any legal sense.

Is it or is it not? Per this tweet, I really don’t know: https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1267129644...

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trump-cant-designate-antif...

Fortunately our legal system doesn't operate on the basis of Trump's tweets.

"Being antifa" has a lot more connotations than just being against fascism.

Equating the antifa group and it's loose "members" with just an anti-ideology is a cop-out that isn't helpful to differentiating a desirable mindset (anti-fascism) with the undesirable tactics that many "members" of Antifa use.

Actions that prevent fair and free exercise of civil rights are against the law. The designation of the groups under the law is not relevant to the actions of the KKK already being illegal if they interfere with the above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Enforcement_Act

I'd call TigerSwan a domestic terrorist organization with the way they handled the Standing Rock protest.

Again, what I would call them is not the point. The point is that it is unconstitutional to designate any domestic organization a 'terrorist organization'.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trump-cant-designate-antif...

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