What is Antifa? A closer look at the controversial group

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As protests over George Floyd's death spread across the country, officials have blamed the violent nature of some demonstrations on members of a controversial group known as Antifa. Here's a closer look at Antifa protesters, who have become more visible in the last several years.

While it can be difficult to distinguish Antifa activists from other protesters, some dress head to toe in black. Members call this the "Black Bloc."Why are they controversial?

Crow, who was involved with Antifa for almost 30 years, said members use violence as a means of self-defense and they believe property destruction does not equate to violence. Levin said Antifa activists feel the need to partake in violence because "they believe that elites are controlling the government and the media. So they need to make a statement head-on against the people who they regard as racist."

White nationalists and other members of the so-called alt-right have denounced members of Antifa, sometimes calling them the "alt-left." Many white nationalists from the Charlottesville rallies claimed it was the Antifa groups that led the protests to turn violent.who attended the Virginia protests, said he believes the far left, including Antifa, are "just as dangerous, if not more dangerous than the right wing could ever be.

 

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It is not a group. It doesn’t have a leader because it’s not a group. It’s an ideology Do not feed into the propaganda machine that Donald Trump is creating Do not let him convince you it is a terrorist group. It is not

How is this a controversial opinion. This IDEOLOGY is against hate and racism of all forms. CTV news has not covered this from every angle. CNN and MSNBC have live footage while you pick and choose what to show. Disgraceful.

Antifa is antifascist.if ur against that then ur srsly messed not tryin to live in a policing state.Stop falling for trumps propaganda

It's not a group it's an ideology. Antifa means Anti-Fascist. SMH

Violent Marxists. That’s it.

Hey maybe fact check yourself. I know the news cycle is crazy right now but you've gotta do better than falling for a dictators propaganda.

For real? We feeding into Trump propaganda now This is SHAMEFUL

It's what BreakingFakeCTVNews doesn't want to report on because of their cozy leftist payments by the Liberal party to ensure that the Liberal narrative is maintained even though most Canadians don't agree with it. LameStreamMedia at it's best.

Its an ideology not an organization

“Controversial” Say what? The paid organized street army of the Democrat Party, dedicated to public mayhem and insurrection. They are the nothing more than our New Age Fascists.

Antifa is not a group. It is an ideology. Stop distorting reality. Antifa isn't an organisation or group. There are no Antifa members. Anti-fascism is an ideological stance that all decent people espouse. The people opposed to anti-fascists are called fascists.

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It is a terrorist group.

ANTIFA isn’t an organized group

Not very sharp.

They are Progressive Socialist Domestic Terrorists.

Scumbags

Don't. Just don't

Terrorists.

Those are realDonaldTrump GOP buddies whom are secret mail list of when to act how to act and where to act. It happened in Virgina now across America !

Seriously are you kidding me? This is his attempt to systematically remove those who oppose him by unilaterally calling all of them Antifa Terrorists. this is feeding his propaganda machine.

Some clever savvy marketing people figured out that the most effective way to build a fascist movement is to call it “antifascist”.

Terrorists that want nothing more then see the world burn.

Are people this gullible? AntiFa is not an organization, it is people against fascism. In case people missed it, the antifa_us group that was on twitter was actually Identity Evropa, why? Because AntiFa doesn't form groups like this... The violence is cause by white supremacy

Only Nazis hate antifa!

They emerge several times a year from Mom's basement to save the world.

Wow. You have to tweet this same idiot story THREE TIMES? The answer is simple. They are a VIOLENT TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.

If you see people against Antifa, they are likely fascist loving nazi scum 🤷‍♂️

A BUNCH OF STRING BEAN ASSPIMPS THAT MY BOY BIG PRED francis_ngannou WILL RAGDOLL LIKE A WHITE BBW IN THE BACKSEAT OF A CHEVY BIGKEV

CTV FRIENDS..

Ask Mayor of Toronto JohnTory He hires them it appears

Antifa:

Terrorist group you mean

it is a make believe group stop with this ctv news

Terrorist group or a bunch of white kids, with no life, and didn’t have the love of their parents. THUGS!!! Get a fuken job

donkeychucker2 'controversial' With CTV and Global, why do the leftist bedwetters even need CBC?

🤬🤬’s

Controversial? LMFAO. The real answer; a domestic terrorist organization hell bent on causing chaos/violence and other forms of anti-social behaviours that no democracy should ever allow. Terrorism. Normally members live in their parents basements and can’t find a partner.Losers

They are trash

Antifa is the other side of the coin. KKK & white supremacists on 1 side & antifa just as violent on the other side. What a world.

It's awesome they're finally being called out for the garbage they're....can't wait for these moron celebrities who had no clue who they were to start backtracking.

Terrorists group

More FAKE NEWS, Maybe learn about US LAW, US already has used this LAW to process other indictments on domestic terrorist, this is nothing new, Trump only stated that they would prosecute Antifa, under this 18USC article, and AG BARR confirmed this before Trump even made speech.

Antifa aka violent Liberals

Controversial group? You spelled terrorists wrong.

It’s a communist backed terrorist by organization, what’s controversial? Same as the Weather Underground which FBI knows very well.

they are anarchists. The want Insurrection so they can fill the *gap* of leadership left after they've caused the chaos and destruction. Your freedoms are on the line right now and too many people are still sleeping lulled by the drone of complicit media and corrupt politicians

ANTIFA ,PAID LEFT WING LIBREAL COWARDS ...

They are a group of terrorists

These are all fatherless entitled left wing neo Marxist scum. They are Communists. Which is why the violence is here.

(it's not a group)

There is no ‘controversy’ here. The AntifaTerrorists are financed by leftists with the only purpose to cause unrest while adding to the chaos.

Privileged skinny jean soy boys fancying themselves to be revolutionaries who can suppress their cowering long enough to sucker punch grannies.

Violent thugs period!

It's amazing right-wingers just pretend that a bunch of people weren't cheating hail Trump or another group yelling the jews will not replace us. Now here comes mainstream media to a false equivalence. One side wants a theocracy with one race the other wants to stop that.

They are terrorist groups hell bent on causing damage and destruction.

a terrorist group. made up mostly of cowards hidding behind a mask... but i'm sure it's due to the corona virus.

Give this a watch to see what these guys are all about.

Yes. “We’re the good guys!” As they club people over the head and beat them up.

CNN supports Antifa and this ‘article ‘ is from CNN .CTV is a Marxist joke

Nazi Roll Call here! Hey Nazis check in with a stupid comment.

What antifa groups showed up. What is the group called? There is no group called antifa....

Antifa advocates the use of violence to shut down political discussion, and therefore is a fascist group itself.

A group of violent thugs who think they have some moral standing that makes their actions acceptable and who exploit and bastardize history so they can pretend to have credibility.

Antifa domestic terrorist group. Funded by NGO's in an attempt destroy the nation state. Wake up Canada.

Look and the rioting. Solve. I could be the news anchor and weather dude.

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