White Women were Genuinely Scared of Getting Sexually Assaulted by Antifa, the Anti-Fascist Group

by Kara Machowski

Protesters at Charlottesville's "White Nationislt" March in 2017

Say it isn’t so, but it’s true, white women shuttered their doors and windows, cell phones in hand, guns loaded and ready to shoot any which way. Why? Because they were told that the same people who are looting and rioting belong to “ANTIFA” (a fake group created in retaliation to antifa, the anti-fascist, anit-Nazi movement). Someone decided to post that “ANTIFA” planned to enter and pillage white neighborhoods while sexually assaulting white women and killing their children. So of course they imagined every scene from The Purge and freaked out on social media.

In Scottsdale, AZ a post was shared with a warning that originally surfaced on the App “Nexdoor”. It read;

“Just got an update about tonight: They’re going for Scottsdale Quarter tonight, stay far away.” no one ever entered Scottsdale Quarter, surrounded by North Scottsdale, set far away from the riots in downtown Scottsdale and the protests in Phoenix, mainly white and quiet. I know none of this happened because it's where I live. The post continued; “They’re also breaking into Scottsdale homes to r@pe and beat ‘white’ women. Please keep your doors locked, your guns loaded, and keep safe in your homes”.

The last part was ridiculously untrue and even scarier, could be considered as a tactic to scare someone enough to possibly shoot anyone who they thought was entering their house or going to. Also, to possibly carrying out the intentions of the original author, who remains unknown as the person who posted the photo claimed that it came from another Facebook group.

The local Scottsdale Facebook group that the photo originated from turned off additional commenting on the post and doesn’t like to associate themselves with this type of thinking. However, the original comments were left up and numerous women commented in fear and of course, said they were going to download the app, Neighboor, "right away".

The threat wasn’t only shared in Scottsdale, but residents in South Florida also received the message and until it was revealed on Tuesday that the original Twitter account, @Antifa_US (the original poster of violent acts against humanity), was linked to an alt-right group.

The connection with acts of vandalism and the antifa movement, that are being labelled as terrorist acts, came directly from President Trump when he addressed the media and the nation at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canavral, FL on Saturday. Trump stated; the recent "violence and vandalism" seen across the country "is being led by Antifa and other radical left-wing groups who are terrorizing the innocent, destroying jobs, hurting businesses and burning down buildings."

The speech was of course followed by a a couple of tweets by the president which announced that he would be labeling "Antifa" as an organized-domestic terror organization.

The irony in this threat is that Alt-Right Media is promoting ‘white’ protest aggregators as members as antifa. Easily overnight on Monday, every white person that was recorded committing a violent act or promoting violence was labeled as an “ANTIFA member”. At the same time, why would an organized group of anti-fascist white men go into white neighborhoods to assault white families, especially targeting women? None of it makes sense.

Many videos that were posted over the weekend resurfaced while calling out any person who was comminting an abusive act amongst the protests as members as "ANTIFA", a movement with no leader and no followers.

What is Antifa?

Antifa was a movement that began in the 1940’s at the time of Hitler’s reign in Germany and in response to the Holocaust. According the Merriam Webster the official definition is; “a person or group actively opposing fascism : an anti-fascist movement”.

Antifa is the the shortened version of "anti-fascism" and anifaschistisch, the German way of pronunciation of "anti-fascist".

You could consider the family who hid Anne Frank and her family supporters of antifa.

The idea of a militant group also follows the definition in other dictionaries, which isn’t untrue, but at the same time it isn’t the complete truth. Militant groups were formed within the underground resistance movement against Nazis, which at that time didn’t have a name and wasn't the entire representation of those who followed the antifa movement. You could consider the family who hid Anne Frank and her family supporters of antifa.

“The argument is that militant anti-fascism is inherently self-defense because of the historically documented violence that fascists pose, especially to marginalized people,” said Mark Bray, a history lecturer at Rutgers University and the author of “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.”