I am asking in all seriousness, what do you fight for? I have my own views but still believe we have a right to then. What is important to you? What is setting people so far apart on beliefs? Strong beliefs are worth a fight. I have my own and am conservative. Can I get an honest reply of why we are at such odds? I believe in freedom, but freedom without trying to control, I believe in work and support of others. I believe in mentoring. Would like to talk. No more words allowed.
Anti-fascism is a global movement with hundreds of thousands of people involved. As such, there is as diverse a range of political viewpoints within anti-fascism as there is in the general population (yes, there are even conservative antifa!). What unites us is one thing: an opposition to fascism & bigotry and an intention to do whatever we need to in order to shut down fascism & bigotry.We think the anti-fascist ethos is best summed up in the motto “respect existence or expect resistance.” We believe that people should be free to live their lives without fear of discrimination, persecution, or violence being visited upon them because of their ethnicity, gender or sexual identity, language, migrant status, religion, or disability. We believe that anyone that believes otherwise, encourages other people to believe otherwise, or might act on such bigoted beliefs is a clear threat to our communities and to humanity and must be stopped.We’re going to guess that, even though you’re a conservative, you’re probably nodding your head in agreement with this. Like we said before, there are many conservative anti-fascists and most conservatives would find that they actually share the same values & aspirations of anti-fascists (see above). For example, here’s footage of antifa & conservatives working together to kick fascists out of a 2017 Trump rally.That said, conservative anti-fascists find themselves grappling with some contradictions more left-leaning antifa don’t have to deal with. Like the historical fact that every time a fascist regime has come to power, it’s only been able to do so with the consent & cooperation of existing conservative elites. Or the tendency of conservatives to be so loyal to police that they turn a blind eye to police wrong-doing and, in the case of anti-fascism, outright police bigotry and even collaboration with (or membership in!) extreme racist or fascist groups. Or the fact that, despite conservatives’ professed love of the Second Amendment, they sit on their hands when the authorities pass laws or seize firearms from racialized people. Even the professed love of “freedom” that conservatives claim doesn’t seem to mean much when you ask them if that includes freedoms like the freedom of movement (see: the Trump border wall) or the freedom to live your life in a way that’s consistent wth your gender identity or sexual orientation. We’re not saying that you, Anon, are specifically opposed to people crossing imaginary, invisible lines set up by wealthy elites long-since dead or that you are a homophobe or transphobe, but you’d have to admit that for a political perspective that claims to value “freedom” so dearly, conservatives tend to get all up in people’s business regarding how they’re allowed to present themselves or where they’re allowed to travel or live. Contradictions aside, the bottom-line is still this: if a conservative opposes bigotry & fascism and is willing to stand up and doing something to back that up, they are an anti-fascist!
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