Flashback: In 2017, Teen Vogue Wrote Pro-ANTIFA Article For Impressionable Teens [Opinion]

In an article titled “Antifa History and Politics, Explained,” Teen Vogue writer Abdullah Shihipar tries to sugarcoat the antifa organization for teens to digest and sympathize with their views.

The scary thing about this article is that it was written in 2017 and remains active on social media. This means that this material has likely influenced thousands of teens to be sympathetic to the organization’s plight.

It is important because antifa is connected to a lot of the violence happening in the ongoing riots across the nation. If you think this article coming out two years ago is not dangerous, think again. Remember that minds and ideologies are not changed overnight, rather it takes coaching and practiced narratives to change someone’s point of view.

Fast forward to the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent riots. And, you see that every time the liberal media (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc) refuse to acknowledge antifa’s roll or use this chance as a way to excuse antifa’s actions, it doesn’t come under fire by liberal teens. They don’t call out liberal media because they have been conditioned to believe that antifa is not bad because they hate Trump, and so should they.

This sentiment intensifies when the Attorney General in charge of filing charges against the police officers involved in George Floyd’s murder praises the antifa organization and is seen celebrating their handbook.

https://twitter.com/RepStevenSmith/status/1268057051848232960

The article interviews the author of “ANTIFA The ANTI-FASCIST HANDBOOK,” Dartmouth College historian Mark Bray, as seen in the Twitter picture above.

Abdullah Shihipar: “What can people do in their own lives to stop fascism?”

Mark Bray: “Fascists and white supremacists want to make their racist opinions seem like common sense. They want to push back the generations of progress made by feminist and anti-racist movements to make racism and sexism great again. In order to resist that, it’s important for people to not simply look away when their friends or co-workers try to intimidate immigrants or people of color or make bigoted comments, because that kind of fabric of everyday interactions is part of this larger struggle of whether or not we think racism, sexism, transphobia, etc., are okay. In that sense, we all have a role to play in the everyday anti-fascism of not allowing Trump and the alt-right to roll back generations of social progress. That’s something everyone can do, no matter who they are, simply by taking a stand in their everyday life.”

It all comes back to their hatred for conservatives and our President. They don’t care about America and have shown that they are willing to burn down our country to get their way.

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