Incidentally, my first introduction to Foucalt (when I was a teenager, late 1980’s) was via a graphic version of an excerpt from Discipline and Punish done by an incredibly obscure Australian indie comic artist named Gerard Ashworth.
Gerard was seriously small press; he printed his comics by pilfering access to his father’s work photocopier. There were maybe 200 of each issue printed.
Yet his message still got out to the people it needed to reach. And he got a warning, rather than a ban, which someone at his level of government should get for an action like this. You have to “preserve” the President’s tweets; fine, I guess. This fucker isn’t the President.
He should be kicked out of congress. The fact he isn’t – and no noises are being made like he will be – indicates just how well supported the idea of killing people with different political views is at that level.
The worst timeline is getting even worse.
See? You are using “them” as though “they” are an organization. “Their actions” aren’t the work of an organization, so of course you aren’t always behind what “they” do.
If you are already thinking of antifa as a cohesive organization, then the GOP’s work is half done.
This situation is so incredibly fucked. Our only hope is that the bill goes nowhere, but again, no censure – much less removal – of Matt Gaetz over his tweet calling for Americans to kill Americans is a bad, bad sign.
I don’t see it as a cohesive organization, but “they” are a “group”. They self identify as part of an ideology. If people claiming to be Antifa do an action - good or bad - it makes sense to say “they” did something. A group of people did something. I am not sure how else one would describe actions as such.
I mean this is like any other ideological group. Any “capitalist” or “socialist” or “communist” or “conservative” or “liberal” may or may not belong to a specific organization, but they also gather around a banner of like ideals.
At the same time, there is a lot of conflation and mis-attribution of actions to Antifa and other groups. Because they have no leadership or organization, you have people claiming solitary with Antifa and also having other affiliations which then mixes and clouds what they are all about. The fact the average person is like o_0 when wondering how they feel about it is understandable, IMO.
Being “Antifa” means nothing more than having a vague feeling that Nazis are somehow bad, and rule-of-law is good. There still are a lot of people that feel that way. Not all the WW2 vets have died out yet, for example.
Which is exactly why they make it such a boogieman. Because they absolutely do not believe in the concepts of freedom, equality, or the rule-of-law. They want to be privileged masters who can steal from and abuse (even torture and kill) the rest of us at their whim, with no accountability on their part, and horrible consequences on our part if we do not meekly submit.
