The answer to that question would be another question... Why does your side always try to make the other side worse when both sides are despicable?
Because BOTH sides are NOT despicable,at least in the sense you're using.Both sides may approach each other and utilize questionable tactics on the field of battle with EACH OTHER.That's not necessarily to Antifa or the Left's credit that they employ similar tactics when the 2 sides engage in physical confrontations OVER POLITICS.No one here is failing to admonish Antifa when they use the same sort of force that the Klan and Nazis have used in the past and continue to use in the present.
But Antifa is not based on a philosophy of hate and racial/ethnic superiority.You can get by with a "bosides" characterization when it comes to tactics,but you can't begin to make that claim when it comes to underlying philosophy.The Nazi march in front of the Chalottesville Synaogue on Friday night,which deliberately cut thru the heart of the UVA campus was not an attack on or response to actions from Antifa.It was an INTENTIONAL hearkening back to Nazi rallies in pre-War Germany and was designed to serve the same ends- fear and intimidation.
They weren't demonstrating their "power" and shouting "Jews will not replace us" in an attempt to intimidate Antifa.It wasn't Antifa "militants" who were huddled within Congergation Beth Israel in fear,afraid to venture outside and be confronted by people whose only goal was to frighten them.From The Atlantic...
"The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville was ostensibly about protecting a statue of Robert E. Lee. It was about asserting the legitimacy of “white culture” and white supremacy, and defending the legacy of the Confederacy.
So why did the demonstrators chant anti-Semitic lines like “Jews will not replace us”?
The demonstration was suffused with anti-black racism, but also with anti-Semitism. Marchers displayed swastikas on banners and shouted slogans like “blood and soil,” a phrase drawn from Nazi ideology. “This city is run by Jewish communists and criminal ******s,” one demonstrator
told Vice News’ Elspeth Reeve during their march. As Jews prayed at a local synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, men dressed in fatigues carrying semi-automatic rifles stood across the street,
according to the temple’s president. Nazi websites posted a call to burn their building. As a precautionary measure, congregants had removed their Torah scrolls and exited through the back of the building when they were done praying.
Are Jews White?
“This is an agenda about celebrating the enslavement of Africans and their descendants, and celebrating those that then fought to preserve that terrible machine of white supremacy and human enslavement,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL. “And yet, somehow, they’re all wearing shirts that talk about Adolf Hitler.”
This is where the "bosides" argument,and Trump's "good people on both sides" trope are both fundamentally flawed.The condemnation of Neo Nazis and KKK should have been UNEQUIVOCAL.Trump's failure to do so initially,and then his equally regrettable attempt to walk back comments that he feared might alienate elements of his base are the reason people all across the POLITICAL spectrum have condemned his words.
GOOD people do not march WITH people carrying swastikas and shouting unequivocally NAZI slogans (Blood and Soil).They don't wear brown shirts and carry tiki torches to commemorate historical marches by people celebrating Fascism and HATRED for an entire race of people.There were and are NO NICE NAZIS.Nazism is anathema to CIVILIZED people,and I'm not sure Trump has shown himself worthy of that designation.Horst Wessel no doubt had a family that loved him.But if you join in singing a song that praises him and walk down the street saying "Sieg Heil" you are a despicable person,paying homage to and flaunting a despicable philosophy.In that sense,BLM and Antifa are not even remotely on the same planet as Neo-Nazi scum.
