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#THREAD #ThereIsNoCivilWar #Antifa 1/ "What is actually happening on November 4? A protest is being launched by the activist group Refuse -
2/ Fascism, which is intended to stir a non-violent mass movement to remove Trump from office, according to Perry Hoberman, a professor at -
3/the University of Southern California who is a member of the group’s steering committee. The idea is to mobilize people to hit the streets
4/ in a peaceful demonstration against #Trump ’s administration, Hoberman says, stressing that it has absolutely nothing to do with starting
5/ another American civil war.“Right wingers will spin anything into anything,” Hoberman says of the #civilwar #conspiracy. “It’s just an -
6/attempt to smear anyone who isn’t a fascist.”Keep #reading so you have all t #Nonfiction #INFORMATION #CivilWar2017 #refusefascism #Antifa
7/ "The Revolutionary Communist Party (REVCOM), which according to activists who spoke to Newsweek is an active but not particularly large -
8/antifascist group, also issued a statement. On its website, the group said a 2005 pamphlet by its founder, Bob Avakian, called The Coming-
9/Civil War & Repolarization for Revolution in the Present Era, was inserted into Jones’s commentary about Refuse Fascism’s planned protests
10/& conflated to be part of the same story."This statement being pushed by Jones is a lie,” the statement says. Sunsara Taylor, an activist
11/who belongs to both REVCOM & Refuse Fascism, told Newsweek that the 2 groups are unrelated,& that the protest is intended to also include
12/"Hillary & Bernie voters" who believe that the Trump regime "must go" if immigrants & people of color are to be protected, & if a nuclear
13/war with North Korea is to be prevented. Newsweek reached out to InfoWars & YournewswireDOTcom for comment about their reporting,but did
14/not immediately receive a response." "Mark Bray, an activist, academic & the author of Antifa, The Anti-Fascist Handbook, says right wing
15/conspiracy theorists who are obsessed with the idea of antifa don’t fully understand what the word means." "Mark Fenster, a law professor
16/ at the University of Florida & the author of a book about conspiracy theories in American culture, argues that we shouldn’t be as
17/dismissive as we once were about the potential dangers of baseless conspiracy theories like those currently spinning around #antifa
18/protesters-" "November 4 will come & go & most likely nothing will happen,” Fenster says of the theory. “But it will drive traffic online
19/ & in turn deepen a fear in some people that a civil war is really coming.”Fenster says conspiracy theories have “long been a part of
20/ American culture,” but only some of them have the potential to cause harm to people." “The conspiracy theories that are based on racial
21/superiority are much more dangerous & have the potential to inspire real violence,” he says of other ideas that are trafficked by some
22/members of the so-called alt-right" #NonFiction version 🙄#ThereIsNoCivilWar nor any wish to have 1 as far as lots in rest of world see 2👥

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