[quote=@Buddha]
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Using violence to beat down and scare dissenting opinions is very much a fascist trait. Whether you agree or not that antifa (or anti fascist people) is now also fascist, surely you can agree that they are engaging in fascist behavior at times.[/quote]

Eh, in the same way that the United States government maintaining a military is fascist; it's a component, but not a big enough one for alarm. Antifa tends to go further than just punching Nazis, so I have mixed feelings about them, but I don't see fascist potential in that movement because it lacks any real political ambition. They don't have enough of an idealogy to form a government. 

[quote]I can reconcile political differences with genocide, mostly because genocide can be rationalized. Maybe not to you, but it can be to these people. Everything is ideology. Even genocide. And politics tend to include ideology. The rationale that a race is weaker and is leeching off of the stronger and therefore they must be cleansed seems brutal and unfair but there's very much a rationale behind it, which can be politically motivated. It's not like there aren't tonnes of (political) books written about the theories of [i]why[/i] we should hate certain people, no?[/quote]

Anything can be rationalized. Humanity has a gift for rationalization. There is a rationalization behind Antifa's hair-trigger on fascist beating. Shit, most serial murderers have rationalizations for their behavior. For the same reason I will not accept the rationalization of a serial killer as on par with the reasoning of a healthy person, I will not accept the rationalizations of a Nazi as on par with other political opinions. They are, to a man, want-to-be mass murderers, and their rationalizations diseased ranting.