Both the political left and right in this country claim that they stand for equality. Conservatives stand for equality under the law--that the laws apply equally to everyone and that no one is above the law. In fact, this is source of the concept of rule of law. Under such a system, the government ideally acts as an impartial referee. People will, at least in an ideal situation, rise to the level determined by their talents and efforts (or sink to the levels of their stupidity or laziness). It is inevitable that there will be winners and losers. White and Asian kids will dominate the Ivy League while blacks will dominate most professional sports.
The left, whether they be the fascists calling themselves AntiFa or Black Lives Matter, or the more mundane progressive, are concerned about equality of outcome. Everyone should end up at the same place. To do that, however, society (or rather, the government) must step in help to lift one person, while dragging another person down. Want more blacks and Hispanics in the Ivy Leagues, well, then, you are going to restrict the number of whites and Asian that are admitted. Equality of outcome requires the abandonment of equal rights before the law because, to work, the law must discriminate against one group (whites and Asians) in order to discriminate in favor of other groups (blacks and Hispanics).
You can have equality under law, or equality of outcome, but you cannot have both. The founding principles of the United States is that all men were created equal before the Lord, and therefore were to stand equal before the law. Anti-Fa seeks to have the laws applied differently to different people (or even have different laws for different people) in order that inequalities be erased (i.e., that there be an equal outcome for all). This is incompatible with the founding principles of this great nation. Hence, Anti-Fa are anti-American.
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