CLASSIC: What is 'Antifa?'
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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If you've been watching the news, you've probably heard journalists and pundits throwing around the word "antifa," often in relation to protests. The phrase, a portmanteau of "anti-fascist," has been used to describe multiple groups and individuals. It's become the subject of several conspiracy theories as well - but what exactly is "antifa"? Tune in to learn more.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realist, pro-fascist and anti-fascist alike, back in 2020, there was a word that kept popping up in U.S. discourse, Antifa. |
| 0:14.6 | Antifa. |
| 0:15.6 | And Antifa. |
| 0:17.5 | Did you guys see the recent, well, I saw some clips going around with an FBI official |
| 0:24.8 | testifying before a congressional committee about Antifa and how it's the most dangerous |
| 0:30.6 | domestic terror threat within the United States right now? |
| 0:34.5 | And really, really dropping the ball when asked specifics, because it |
| 0:38.4 | turns out it's kind of like saying the biggest threat to the United States is feminism. And you say, |
| 0:44.3 | well, where's their headquarters? And they go, uh, I don't know. Well, I guess that's the thing. I mean, |
| 0:50.0 | back in the simpler days of 2020, where this was really just starting to get thrown around, |
| 0:54.8 | I think it was pretty clear what it was in terms of like a concept or, you know, this idea of |
| 1:01.3 | being anti-fascist, but then like a lot of terms in the wrong hands kind of get weaponized and |
| 1:07.2 | redefined and taken over. So it'll be kind of an interesting time capsule, honestly, |
| 1:11.7 | to see where we were and where we are. |
| 1:15.8 | Well, we know when it comes to things like revolutions, |
| 1:18.6 | an idea can be one of the most dangerous and viral things that exists, right? |
| 1:23.5 | So there is something maybe to be thinking about here when it comes to an opposition to whatever the status quo is or, you know, a current administration or something. |
| 1:36.0 | Maybe the idea of whatever Antifa is could be their biggest threat, which is weird to think about. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, the mission creep of definitions, right? |
| 1:46.7 | This phrase is, as we said, a portmanteau of anti-fascist, |
| 1:51.3 | which in general is something people can universally agree upon being bad in a democracy. |
| 1:57.9 | But now, as we'll see, the term may have experienced definition creeps such that it |
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