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If you are against a self-professed democratic people's republic (of Korea), does that make you anti-democratic or anti-people?
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The difference is that North Korea is a place, with an organization that claims to be its government. You can point to it on a map.

Antifa is an adjective that people with no connection to one another self-apply. I'm antifa, and I imagine you are too, but it doesn't mean that we've ever met or coordinated with one another in any meaningful way.

The word "antifa" is basically meaningless altogether, since virtually every person since the end of WW2 claims to oppose fascism.

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Well, it makes you antiDPRK. Being anti-antifascist just make you a fascist, or a fascist-adjacent supporter.
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> Being anti-antifascist just make you a fascist, or a fascist-adjacent supporter.

If a loose-knit ideology/movement called "Anti-Rapists" emerged that evolved into a cohort of various disconnected thugs who targeted homosexuals for violence, would being Anti-"Anti-Rapist" make you a supporter of rapists or rapist-adjacent supporter?

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I can't tell if you are disputing or agreeing?

Obviously, in the scenario you describe, people will continue describe themselves as "anti-rapist" and everybody will understand that they mean that they are opposed to rape.

There is no "loose-knit ideology/movement" called "antifa" - there are groups like SDS and Don't Shoot PDX and a zillion others who describe themselves as "antifa", using it as an adjective. I'm aware of no person or organization who has attempted to proclaim that they are the one true antifa org.

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Well their view ist that antifa are actually fascists, which makes anti antifa democrats.
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But that's really the height of silliness. I can say that all people who describe themselves as 'anticapitalist' are actually capitalists, but that doesn't change anything about those people, the ideology in question, or the world.

Are some people who call themselves antifa secretly fascists? I'm sure they are. So?

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