RE: Antifa are Complete and Utter Morons - The Sargon of Akkad Event
Exactly, I think you are one of the people who gets it. I didn't put it in this article, but it has occurred to me that maybe some right-wing groups actually help fund Antifa, Women's etc. Studies Departments, websites that advocate SJW causes, and so on. It would really be a stroke of political genius. For all that most Leftists talk about "Left Unity", Antifa is the perfect way to break that up. In the U.S., I think a large part of why working class people voted for Trump is because he was anti-SJW. That's not the majority of it, but that group of voters was enough to make the difference I bet. People don't like being told what they can and can't talk about, and when they see crazy shit like this, they naturally want to fight back against it. If Left-leaning people do not denounce Antifa, then the Right-Wing looks like the only option if people want to fight against this. Like you said, it also justifies Right-Wingers talking about Marxist infiltration of the government and how everybody Left-of-Center is a secret commie. That hasn't become true, but now it looks like it to a lot of people.
Another think you brought up is also very important - these people never manage to touch the establishment. What change do they really threaten? I guess they want to launch a Communist Revolution, but that is never going to happen, so the only people who need fear them are other grassroots activists who disagree with them. They divide anyone who isn't part of the establishment - anyone who doesn't have power already. They ultimately help keep society as it is, except for all the poor activists and freedom of speech that get crushed along the way.
I've been on the internet long enough to know about the crazy shit people come up with, like that George Soros is personally responsible for everything that's wrong in the west lol. But like holy shit how the fuck would you not see the massive benefit in it lol, like if you were the Machiavellian capitalist powermonger you'd put money into the most cringe worthy, divisive, damaging "liberal" political causes and push those. Who's got time and actual brains to talk about actual finance reform and political corruption when you have our thinkers like idk Jordan Peterson and Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker and so forth busy talking shit about SJWs and whether or not trans people should be allowed into some bathrooms or not, or whether a white woman rapping is tantamount to a hate crime against humanity or some shit. It's like that joke people on 4chan make, that 4chan is where smart people pretend that they're stupid, but Reddit is where stupid people pretend to be smart. Well progressive politics right now is the Reddit of politics. People get up and say words they think are big and point to academics who also say this dumb shit like it's actually an argument, and latch on to whatever is trendy now and shit on anything that is even remotely actually successful. Like it's the ramblings of a madman dressed up as some kind of worthwhile discourse.
If people looked at SJW activists and talking heads the same way they look at politicians a lot of the agenda pushing and manipulation would be immediately obvious to anyone. And that's basically what they are.
But still man, holy shit poor Sargon. This is actual political violence and I bet you'll never hear about it anywhere but either full on right wing sites or anti-SJW ones. And people really do still go on about muh not real feminists or vocal minority no one actually listens to and so forth. They just don't own up to it.
My biggest concern immediately is that Antifa are going to start doing some real violence when they storm these stages. I mean, it would have just taken one mad man to bring a shank in there and give Sargon a couple pokes. And the worst thing is, you know it's going to happen eventually too with one of these events. The 18-22 year olds will probably grow out of this, but it's the older ones you gotta watch out for. A 35 year old AnCom just isn't right.
I'm strongly against a police state, but we need to have police do a little at least to stop this. Metal detectors should be required, and police should remove any protestors who try to shut down the event. I have no issue with people standing outside, or lining the entrance and chanting, holding signs etc. But they can't be in that same room. That's how violence will get started. Eventually, some crazy mofo will kill someone.