The two are not comparable (which regardless of how you view terrorism is what you seem to be suggesting) and it wouldn't matter if you wrote a 7 thousand page essay it wouldn't change that fact.
I never claimed AntiFa are "as bad as" or even "comparable to" any right wing group. All I said was while we're writing a list of the terrorist groups, we should put AntiFa on there as well, as by the definition of "terrorism" they would qualify.
This is the "in some jest" I referred to earlier. It would be an absurd notion that AntiFa are exactly as bad as any of the groups on that document - be they Right Wing, Religious, Revolutionaries or whatever else. That's kind of the joke.
The fact that the British government is recognising the seriousness of the far-right is a positive step... especially given how
the current President of the United States defended right wing extremists after an attack that resulted in another murder.
I agree! So long as any investigation into groups that pose an extremist threat is conducted along non-partisan lines; that is to say, AntiFa, NeoNazis and the RSPB (note the jocular tone, I implore you) are investigated to the same degree as everyone else, and no group is written off of being a potential threat based on the nature of their politics. I should clarify here, I feel, that I do believe this is the case, and don't believe AntiFa have some special immunity or aren't taken seriously by investigators.
If you want me to think about what you've written it'll make me fairly angry, because what you essentially seem to be saying is that 'there are bad on both sides' or 'both sides are as bad as each other'... which is again false and belittles the loss of life suffered due to far right extremists because some on the extreme left are a bit violent.
That's not what I said. I didn't talk about any other group than AntiFa, and all I really accuse them of is being a bunch of anarchist LARPers who are very counterproductive to actual political discourse, which is the truth.
It does absolutely **** all to belittle or downplay the crimes or anyone else. Just because I critique AntiFa doesn't make me an AfD supporter, in much the same way that criticising communism doesn't make me a fascist or vice versa.
God forbid something I say make you think, and God forbid that thought make you angry. It's healthy to be challenged, as it affirms conviction in your belief. Don't be so dismissive just because you don't initially agree with me, perhaps it's more worthwhile to read and absorb what I said so you can understand my viewpoint - especially since I never said you were wrong, criticised your viewpoint or accused you of anything, merely explained why I don't support the group in question.
You seem to have gone out of your way to pay as little attention to that as possible, and to deliver as wholly unsatisfying a reply as you can. Essentially, it feels like you've skim-read my posts and decided "this guy wants to downplay MURDER" and thus I'm not worthy of proper debate.
You seem to have mistaken "I don't support AntiFa, and I feel what they do is terrorism" for "AntiFa are the left wing Nazi skinheads that want to drag me out of my house", and I don't think it's very unclear which opinion I actually hold.
I'm quite willing to continue discussing the talking point my original post has raised, but I'd like to remind you that it had a jocular tone, I explained it was poking fun, and then explained the joke again in this post, so I won't be doing so again, and if I'm again taken for "EQUIVILATING MASS MURDER WITH JUST ONE LIKKLE IKKLE FIREBOMBING" then I won't bother at all.
