That one’s a little beyond the pale for me. Antifa may have given themselves the name but in no way equate with WW2 vets for behaviors, sacrifice, or honor.
Men can’t get sacrifice and honor until the shooting starts.
(sorry don’t mean to be making edits on you)
That’s not true, but Antifa’s actions don’t qualify.
I don’t know what actions you mean. I think, until the shooting the starts they are just protesters. After the shooting starts, I think many antifa would choose to die for their country. But certainly not all of them. I also don’t know how many would be willing to kill.
It was the same before ww2. In the 1930s they were only loud sometimes aggressive protesters.
I’m not an expert and I get lost in the alphabet soup of different organizations, but ISTR that the struggle among the Communists, Social Democrats, and Nazis was rather bloody in the run-up to the Nazis gaining power.
If 1930’s German Antifa was just “aggressive protesters”, I’m under the impression that at least some of those “aggressive protesters” were involved in more-than-protests, possibly under different labels.
Fair enough. I was grossly simplifying. The 1930s were generally a lot more violent. I guess I just mean, until there’s a war (and there were wars then too I suppose), nobody gets to be called heroes and awarded medals.
I’ll add that the official German antifascists were communist, which would definitely be inappropriate for US vets.
