[VIDEO] This video is interesting a former antifa leader Soren Lerche speaks with former white nationalist Arno Michaelis about how fighting fascist and racism with violence proved to be very self-defeating in the long term. It was noted that an anti-racist or antifa sucker punched white supremacist Richard Spenser and it only served to give him more publicity.
From the write-up for this video from Rebel News:
Some of the most famous historic examples of anti-fascists were brutal dictators themselves, like former Soviet leader, Josef Stalin, and founder of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, both of whom had regimes that oversaw the deaths of millions of innocent people, often in the name of “anti-fascism.”
Violence should never be the answer, and a real anti-fascist needs to be anti-violence, as well.
A few take aways is that I've seen a few too many video of people during the past summer's unrest distort the words of Dr. MLK - violence is the language of the unheard. MLK also preaches non-violence. As it turns out between Lerche and Michaelis they both realize fighting hate with hate only creates more hate.
You want to fight racism and fascism, it has to be through non-violent means. Also, whatever fascism is actually since perhaps the people who claim to be fighting it doesn't really have any real idea what that means.
RELATED: I discuss what I learned about Mahatma Gandhi & non-violence when I was still at Morehouse
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