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Being anti-fascist is good.

Assaulting people in anything other than self-defense is bad.

It's not complicated.
I lived through a brutal war. While I support all forms of lawful and peaceful mass action, I will never condone proactive violence as a solution to our problems.
So here's a question to those advocating proactive violence against fascists, under the rubric that it is a form of self-defense.

Where do you draw the line?
And to anyone who pretends my position involves false equivalence, I wrote an entire book subtitled "Confronting the Far-Right Menace" in which I explain that rightwing extremists are responsible for the overwhelming majority of domestic terrorism. amazon.com/Digital-Civil-…
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