Thursday, June 25, 2020

Antifa’s Intellectual Nakedness Underneath its Black Garb part 1

This is my letter to the editor of the Daily American newspaper on June 12, 2020


               As a Christian, I obligate myself to a religious code which Antifa and nihilists in general (“nil,” or “nothing,” – the term denies the validity of meaning and morality) both mockingly dismiss.  But there is another moral standard that isn’t grounded on “revealed religion,” yet which renders Antifa inescapably liable to disdain on rational grounds.  It is the “Golden Rule” (treat others as you would have them treat you).  Failure to keep this principle commits the logical fallacy “the double-standard (DS)” which entails foisting one standard onto others which the imposers will not apply to themselves.  It is among most pervasive ways people do wrong to others.  Although I hold that God will highlight this ploy as one of his grounds for judging people (Rom. 2:1-3), the problem Antifa faces is that, even though entirely separate from religious authority, the DS fallacy exposes the committing of this offense as sheer hypocrisy.
               “Antifa,” means “anti-fascist.”  Yet when measured against the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of “fascism,” our country, though imperfect, is not fascist but to the contrary, the champion of individual liberties.  So, despite Antifa’s official claims, they are merely exploiting their name as a smoke-screen in order to destroy our society.  In this hypocritical act, mainstream journalists are culpable by enabling that deception.  Why, for example, do they fixate on nitpicking every “error” of our President, while altogether failing to shine a spotlight on the destruction that Antifa leaves everywhere in its wake?
               It is instead Antifa who are fascist in their goals, as is borne out by their demonstrated habit of demanding surrender to their view under threat of an array of harmful outcomes.  Indeed, Antifa proves by their track record (as witnessed on TV) that they care for no people group other than their own, not even blacks.  This puts the lie to their professed alliance with the “Black Lives Matter” movement (BLM).  For one thing, that slogan contradicts Martin Luther King Jr’s (MLKJ) “dream” of the day his children would “be judged not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character.”  It also contradicts the methods Nelson Mandela employed in successfully bringing blacks and whites together into a united South Africa, as enacted in the historically-sound movie, “Invictus.”  So, it is instead the slogan, “All Lives Matter,” that alone unites blacks with all others as co-equals in privileges, both legal and social.

To be continued...  


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