So is everybody a Nazi now? Plus, is Antifa really very dangerous or not?

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them know that we sent you. So there's this very irritating line of thought that has now appeared

from the left and it is super duper irritating. And it is that if you condemn Antifa and you also

condemn neo-Nazis,

you are therefore covering for neo-Nazis. This is stupid. And it's part of a broader effort

by the left to paint everyone in the world who is on the right as a neo-Nazi or a Nazi sympathizer

or a Confederate sympathizer. It's really ugly. As I said last week, there's a number of propositions,

I think, that 95% of Americans agree on. Nazis bad, communism bad, violence against peaceful protesters bad. Those three seem to me pretty simple. And it seems to me like the vast majority of Americans should agree with those. But because of political motivations on all political sides, all of this has gone into the background. It's receded into the background. Instead,

we're clubbing each other over the head. Apparently, all right-wingers are supposed to be neo-Nazis, and all left-wingers are Antifa, and nearly the two shall meet. So today I want to talk about who is who, because I think there's a lot of category error going on. I think that people are looking at the rally that happened in Boston, the Boston Free Speech Coalition rally, and the left is saying, that's a bunch of neo-Nazis. And then the right is looking at all the protesters, the 40,000 protesters who showed up, and they're saying, all of those people are Antifa. No. No. Okay, so if you're going to gauge the particular merit of a group, you have to gauge them along two lines. One line is, what do they believe? And the other line is what do they do? do? You can gauge the morality of what somebody believes and engage the morality of what they do. So one of the things that's been very irritating is when people like me say Antifa is an evil group because they violate the social contract by beating up people with whom they disagree, people say, oh, you're saying they're worse than the Nazis. No, I'm not saying they're worse than the Nazis in terms of their belief system. I'm saying if they initiate violence and the Nazis don't, then they are worse than the Nazis in terms of their particular behavior. Now, if the Nazis initiate violence, then we have moral equivalence in terms of their behavior and the Nazis are worse on ideology. I'm trying to be very specific in particular here because I don't like broad labels. Now, I want to correct myself on that score because I've said before that the left has been very kind to Antifa.

Let me be clear about this. I don't mean everyone on the left. I mean many mainstream leftists. Many more mainstream leftists are kinder to Antifa than mainstream right wingers are kind to the alt-right. The alt-right has been a movement that a lot of people on the right have kind of

winked and nodded at, President Trump and Steve Bannon among them, but the idea that the entire right has been winking and nodding or openly celebrating, forget winking and nodding, openly celebrating the alt-right, that's not true. And the left, many mainstream leftists have been openly celebrating Antifa. So I think a great case in point is what happened over the weekend in Boston. So in Boston this weekend, there is what the Boston Free Speech Coalition called. It's free speech rally. Leading up to it, the mayor of Boston, guy named Thomas Walsh, he said that he doesn't want any of the white supremacists in his city. Here's what he had to say. We also have a message to the hate groups, especially any that are plans to come to our city this weekend.

Boston does not welcome you here. Boston does not want you here.

Boston rejects your message.

We reject racism. We reject white supremacy.

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