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A Beating in Berkeley (Long Read)
Weekly Standard ^ | 9/1/2017 | Matt Labash

Posted on 09/01/2017 7:46:10 AM PDT by NohSpinZone

When Joey draws antifa out to show themselves, it’s not really conservatives he’s trying to reach. Conservatives already loathe antifa, he says. Rather, Joey’s interested in appealing to good, honest middle-of-the-road liberals. He likes them and believes there are plenty of them still out there. They’re just not terribly vocal at the moment when it comes to suppressing their own extremists, who seem hellbent on suppressing everyone else. As with some of the rancid elements of the right, when the moderates are quiet, extremist voices become amplified.

“I’m also trying to help conservatives understand that they have a warped perception of liberals, because the good liberals are keeping quiet.” Joey says. “You go on YouTube and see thousands of videos of social justice warriors acting like crazy Batman because that’s what gets the views. You’re not going to see a video of a normal liberal making sense, you know?”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifa; antifaviolence; berkeley; duplicate; protests; searchworks; violence
A clarion call to get the loony fringe elements back to where they belong - complete irrelevance. Damn the pols like Bernie Sanders who are trying to legitimize these lunatics.
1 posted on 09/01/2017 7:46:11 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
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"good, honest middle-of-the-road liberals"

Those are like unicorns.

2 posted on 09/01/2017 7:51:23 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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“””He likes them and believes there are plenty of them still out there. They’re just not terribly vocal at the moment when it comes to suppressing their own extremists, who seem hellbent on suppressing everyone else.”””

No, they’re either afraid to speak up or they agree with them.


3 posted on 09/01/2017 7:53:19 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: NohSpinZone

I’ve watched a few videos on youtube where one of these Antifa losers are being interviewed without their masks.

These clowns are pathetic. They look like pimply faced nerds, without any muscle tone, who are now trying to prove what big “men” they are. These sissy-marys only assault somenone when it’s 10-1 in their favor. In a one-on-one fight, they would get their ass kicked severely.

They’re a joke. I would love to see a bunch of them confront a group like Bikers for Trump. They would run home to mommie, crying.


4 posted on 09/01/2017 8:04:26 AM PDT by Signalman
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Warning ... very strong, foul language ...

What Scott Adams thinks about antifa

5 posted on 09/01/2017 8:07:46 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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“I’m also trying to help conservatives understand that they have a warped perception of liberals, because the good liberals are keeping quiet.”

Silence is, at the very least, consent. Try this version:

“I’m also trying to help conservatives infidels understand that they have a warped perception of liberals islam, because the good liberals muslims are keeping quiet.”

6 posted on 09/01/2017 8:09:56 AM PDT by MortMan (Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded! [Y. Berra])
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"good, honest middle-of-the-road liberals"

You're right - there's more unicorns... this piece smacks of 'conservative elite BS... The real issue with Antifa is who's paying the bills - who hired the thugs and pays for their air travel and matching silver baseball bats? Prints the signs that credit the Communist Party? Chinese? Russians?

7 posted on 09/01/2017 8:16:05 AM PDT by GOPJ (Asians needs to score 450 points higher on their SAT than blacks to be admitted to elite colleges.)
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" ...Joey’s interested in appealing to good, honest middle-of-the-road liberals"

I understand your frustration, Joey, I wish people like that would stand up to your black-shirted storm troopers, but face it, "good, honest middle-of-the-road liberals" aren't the backbone of your party anymore. They've been basically extinct since January 13, 1978, when Hubert Humphrey died.

The Dems actually ran an admitted socialist ( More accurately a"closeted communist") for president, for God's sake!

"Good, honest middle-of-the-road liberals" don't exist in your party anymore.

8 posted on 09/01/2017 8:23:42 AM PDT by Kenton
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save for later


9 posted on 09/01/2017 8:51:24 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Carl Vehse

While this argument by Wafa Sultan was made regarding Muslims, it is true for liberals, too. The silent majority is meaningless if it is silent in the face of its violent, fundamentalist faction.
Conservatives check their radicals, liberals and Muslims don’t, while both of those groups label all conservatives as radical to distract from that fact.

Wafa Sultan - The Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnOF7y-KuHE


10 posted on 09/01/2017 9:19:44 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: NohSpinZone

Cool read.


11 posted on 09/01/2017 2:26:07 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Kenton

What kind of carbine is that?


12 posted on 09/02/2017 8:40:21 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: NohSpinZone
You’re not going to see a video of a normal liberal making sense, you know?”

Why not? that would be a real "man bites dog" moment.

13 posted on 09/03/2017 12:02:24 PM PDT by gogeo (Trump appears to be working 18 hours per day while congress canÂ’t seem to get in 18 hours per week.)
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I’ll add that a lot of not too conservative people are repelled by Antifa’s antics.


14 posted on 09/03/2017 12:04:25 PM PDT by gogeo (Trump appears to be working 18 hours per day while congress canÂ’t seem to get in 18 hours per week.)
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To: DownInFlames

It appears to be a 9mm Kel-Tec SUB-2000. MSRP $500.

15 posted on 09/04/2017 10:04:32 AM PDT by Kenton
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