Originally a comment by Bruce Gorton on Does the left hate women?
Considering we’re talking radical left, I think a lot of it has to do with Antifa, or the philosophy behind Antifa.
Antifa is fundamentally, as an idea, a validation of violence as a form of political expression, as a tactic in political debate.
Now this strain of thought predates Antifa as a formalized idea on the radical left, but it was with Antifa that it formed enough coherency to be properly identified.
So when Islamists launch terror attacks in Western nations – think the Charlie Hebdo massacre for example – that is seen as not just a political statement, but a valid one. The conversation is always shifted … Read the rest