“The word ‘violence’ is being systematically remade to conform to their worldview. Looting and arson aren’t violence, they argue. And yet physical violence directed at their opponents is also not violence but rather ‘self-defense.’”

—  Andy Ngo

Source: Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy (2021), p. 17

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