Rutgers lecturer Mark Bray complained Monday that President Trump labeling Antifa as a terrorist organization is wrong.
Bray is a known Antifa sympathizer after publishing a book, "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," in 2017 and donating a portion of the proceeds from the book to different Antifa groups around the United States.
On Monday, Bray wrote a
column for the
Washington Post decrying President Trump's efforts to push back against far left-wing groups like Antifa. The president
announced on Sunday that he would declare the extremist group a terrorist organization.
In his column, Bray claimed that Trump is bashing the anti-fascist movement to try and distract from police brutality:
Trump’s reckless accusations lack evidence, like many of his claims. But they also intentionally misrepresent the anti-fascist movement in the interest of delegitimizing militant protest and deflecting attention away from the white supremacy and police brutality that the protests oppose.
He also whined that conservatives are unfairly blaming the violent George Floyd protests on Antifa:
But in the case of the George Floyd protests, right-wing attempts to blame everything on antifa — perceived by many to be predominantly white — evince a kind of racism that assumes that black people couldn’t organize on this deep and wide of a scale. Trump and his allies also have a more specific motive: If the flames and broken glass were simply blamed on "antifa" or "outsiders" — as if anyone had to travel very far to protest — then the urgency would shift from addressing the root causes of Floyd’s death to figuring out how to stop the shadowy boogeyman Trump rails against. Even if you disagree with property destruction, it’s easy to see the chain of events between Floyd’s death and burning police cars. Trump’s misinformation aims to mislead us all.
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