{"id":6562,"date":"2020-06-03T07:43:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6562"},"modified":"2020-06-06T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T19:18:38","slug":"6562","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6562","title":{"rendered":"Monolithic Extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/activism\/antifa-trump-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Nation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9ibm0\" data-offset-key=\"7v9vc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7v9vc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7v9vc-0-0\">&#8216;The report did warn that individuals from a far-right social media group had \u201ccalled for far-right provocateurs to attack federal agents, use automatic weapons against protesters.\u201d (The Nation is withholding the name of the group in order to not disrupt any potential law enforcement investigations.) &#8216;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6klic-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6klic-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9ibm0\" data-offset-key=\"e947e-0-0\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"e947e-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e947e-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e947e-0-0\">The report basically says they&#8217;ve not found any evidence that Antifa is involved in the rioting. I guess we have the monolithic communism theory applied to extremist organizations. Monolithic extremism? Other non-entities are equally not involved &#8212; alt-right is a loosely defined association of a bunch of different groups to &#8230; it <em>itself<\/em> probably doesn&#8217;t have coordinated involvement in anything.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"e947e-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e947e-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e947e-0-0\">While they cannot link Antifa to the riots, the FBI did find a far-right group promoting violence. That is a logical extension of &#8216;Bernie Bros&#8221; &#8212; it&#8217;s not like a protest verifies the identity and online history of every participant to ensure they&#8217;re legitimately concerned about racial equality and\/or police practices. But someone within a couple blocks of your protest loots Macy&#8217;s &amp; you&#8217;ve become Antifa rioters to the MAGA crowd.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Nation: &#8216;The report did warn that individuals from a far-right social media group had \u201ccalled for far-right provocateurs to attack federal agents, use automatic weapons against protesters.\u201d (The Nation is withholding the name of the group in order to not disrupt any potential law enforcement investigations.) &#8216; \u00a0 The report basically says they&#8217;ve &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[692,997,211,998,999,1000],"class_list":["post-6562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-maga-2","tag-fbi","tag-maga","tag-protests","tag-rioting","tag-troll-the-libs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}