The Watch on the Rhine

[ritaxis]

So suddenly after so many years of people saying that using the word fascism was unjustified hyperbole and divisive hysterical nonsense, we have...unbridled our fascists in one way and another, and we have political assassinations that nobody can pretend are anything but (though the media seem to be trying), we have armed fascists stabbing people

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[browngirl]

*reads, and shivers, and learns*

[heleninwales]

Oh, heavens! Not on your side of the Atlantic too? I admit that our referendum result has completely dominated my thoughts since the result last Friday. To say it felt like the death of someone close was not an understatement and I have been near tears all over the weekend and yesterday. I'm starting to work through the grief process somewhat, and done what I can, though it's precious little. I've written to my MP (pro-Europe) twice and I have drafted a letter to the Friend, the Quaker monthly magazine. Other than that, if I see anything useful I can do that is within my power, I will do it, but I don't really know what that could be. But the wave of hatred of foreigners that the vote has unleashed sickens me. Just when the UK appeared to be a more tolerant and inclusive place, ugliness bubbles up from below the surface.

[lyorn]

Brawling with Nazis in the streets brings up what one has learned in school about Communists battling Nazis in the streets of Berlin (and other German cities) in the early 1930s, and the bottom line "did not help".

But while it's important to be aware of parallels, they are not all there is. The Antifa is (mostly) not attempting to take over anything. They are just standing up to Nazis, and that very much needs doing.