Double meat with cheese wrote:
Nah....more wonder as to why you walk in party line and say they do not exist, or the term myth....p***d b**s are also a myth, the Arian brotherhood is made up.
If A****a does not exist...neither does the klan, p***d b**s or the Arian brotherhood.
See how that works my modern day s***e?
President Trump tweeted out a false claim this week that the elderly protester shoved by police in Buffalo, New York, was a member of the anti-f*****t political movement a****a. He is not.
Last Sunday, the president once again said he would designate a****a as a terrorist organization. He made the same remarks last year after a****a followers rumbled with the far-right group, the P***d B**s.
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A****a has never been accused of k*****g anyone, unlike the w***e s*********t h**e group Ku Klux Klan, which is not declared a terrorist organization.
Attorney General William Barr says a****a was responsible for the l**ting and violence that cities across the U.S. witnessed early on in protests against G****e F***d’s murder and police brutality against B***k A******ns.
However, federal court records show out of the 51 people facing federal charges, no one is alleged to have ties to the a****a movement, according to an NPR review.
Over the years, activists on the left have debated whether to disavow a****a’s tactics.
A****a, a loose organization of sorts, has its roots in Germany and the United Kingdom during the uprising f*****t movements of the 1920s and ‘30s, NBC News investigative reporter Brandy Zadrozny says.
The modern movement came to the U.S. in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and they were known for fighting skinheads at punk rock concerts, she says.
Their ideology is based around a h**e for f*****m and a belief that people who are thought to be f*****ts are inherently violent, she says. A****a believes violence is a useful tactic to combat violence from the alt-right.
“The idea is that if more people had brawled in the streets with actual N**is then Hitler and the N**i party would have never risen to power,” Zadrozny says. “So a****a has popped up again now with the e******n of Donald Trump, the rise of the alt-right and the rise of far-right extremists and white nationalist groups that have sort of come up all at the same time.”
A****a has no leader and no clear organization. However, there are organized, localized groups who have followings on social media, such as the Rose City A****a in Portland, Oregon.
Many became aware of a****a as a political movement in 2017 when they showed up at the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally that gathered N**is and w***e s*********ts. In the same year, they helped stop Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right political commentator and Trump supporter, from speaking at the University of California, Berkeley by smashing windows and lighting fires on campus. Berkeley decided to cancel the event after the uproar.
A****a’s goal is to deny f*****ts and far-right activist a platform, she says. Because of this, the right has long defined a****a as positioning themselves against free speech.
“And it's not just violence in the streets,” she says. “It's also coordinated campaigns to shame out [and] harass those on the far right.”
They’ve targeted far-right pundit Ann Coulter and conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, for example, and have doxxed people who are associated with alt-right groups. They’ve said their strategy is to “dehood Klansmen,” Zadrozny says.
Inciting street brawls, such as what Portland residents have experienced, is not part of their main activities, she says. However, that’s how a****a has largely been positioned by their critics.
High-profile politicians have claimed that a****a is showing up in small towns and wreaking havoc during anti-r****m demonstrations. Zadrozny’s reporting for NBC News has found those claims are part of a “top-down disinformation campaign from the president and the president's allies down to local law enforcement and then through social media.”
The result has been small groups of armed m*****as showing up to counterprotest Black L***s M****r demonstrations all over the country, she says, from Florida to Idaho and Oregon.
In Klamath Falls, Oregon, Zadrozny says hundreds of armed counterprotesters showed up ready to fight this “invisible monster” they heard about on social media. They believed a****a “was coming to their town to murder people, murder white people and take their guns and destroy their town. Of course, a****a never came,” she says.
Their presence did, however, “intimidate a large group of diverse people who came together to peacefully protest police brutality in their small town,” she says.
This doesn’t mean that a****a hasn’t shown up to protests against police brutality, she says. It would make sense they would be present because “a large factor in a****a ideology is anti-r****m,” she explains.
There are concerns that at some point, some peaceful protesters might get accused of being a****a, like what happened to the elderly man in Buffalo. She says a “vigilante mob mentality” is taking over small towns.
For example, she says, a man armed with a chainsaw ran off protesters in McAllen, Texas. And in Forks, Washington, a multiracial family on a camping trip was harassed and trapped by locals who accused them of being with a****a.
“It just seems like a powder keg,” she says. “And people that I've spoken to, activists from small towns to larger groups on Black L***s M****r side, they're very concerned for their safety.”
Cassady Rosenblum produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Tinku Ray. Serena McMahon adapted it for the web.
This segment aired on June 11, 2020.