I feel like the main difference between Antifa members and white supremacists is just a few key life experiences, like where they grew up and who they idolized.
But if you look at pretty much any pictures of these groups, you see some truly odd looking people who were probably ostracized until they found a group of other losers to make them feel accepted. Personality wise, I bet they actually have a lot of the same traits. A need to belong, a feeling of being outcasted, living most of their life on the outside looking in, etc.
Sorry, but this post A) shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what Antifa is, and B) uses that misunderstanding to draw a false equivalence between them and fascists.
First off, antifa isn't one group, or even one coherent ideological movement. It's just a label for anyone who opposes fascism. Sure, it's largely made up of leftists, but there's nothing to keep a mainstream liberal, or even a conservative from adopting the label. There's no Antifa Central HQ or any such bullshit, despite the narrative pushed by the far right. Additionally, anti-fascism isn't anything new, nor is it even an ideology universally accepted on the far left. Amadeo Bordiga, an Italian Communist, even went so far as to argue that anti-fascism was the worst product of fascism, largely because it diverted attention from anti-capitalism. Leftists and anti-fascist are, essentially, two separate groups that often overlap.
That said, let's ignore the previous paragraph and assume that antifa and the far-left are interchangeable. They STILL aren't as bad as fascists on purely ideological grounds. There is no peaceful version of white nationalism even in theory. Those who fascists see as their political enemies, IE. jews, non-whites, gays, etc., only cease being their enemy by ceasing to exist. Genocide follows from its own internal logic (if they get power). Despite the atrocities committed by communist regimes (as if communism even represented the entirety of far left ideology), these don't necessarily follow from communist theory.
I'm not saying this to justify EVERY single thing anyone waving around an antifa banner has ever done. I'm just saying, look at things on a case by case basis. And beyond that, what you see in the media is only a fraction of antifascist action (and is generally curated to play into red scare hysteria). Deplatforming white nationalist speakers is an antifascist action sure (and one that is frequently misused), but so is something as simple as say, calling up a venue that fascists intend to use as an organizing space and expressing your concern.
but there's a full document on how the Dailystormer operates.
