{"id":716999,"date":"2021-09-04T13:06:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=716999"},"modified":"2021-09-04T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T17:06:06","slug":"graham-enhancing-the-aura-of-antifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-enhancing-the-aura-of-antifa\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: Enhancing The Aura Of Antifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-enhancing-the-aura-of-antifa%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=716999&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/F54AFBD7-E271-439E-B00A-5C8AFC6801D7-scaled-e1630619964152.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Reporters like to imagine themselves as the nation\u2019s most powerful defenders of democracy, and on occasion, project themselves as enforcers of political civility. If all that were true, then they may report critically on violent extremists of any ideological stripe who find their joy in bringing anarchy and disorder. Sadly, some violent extremists are more celebrated than scorned.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 25, Reuters investigative journalist Aram Roston profiled Nicole Armbruster, a self-proclaimed \u201canti-fascist\u201d who is putting her body \u201con the line\u201d against fascism and racism. They call this \u201crare insight\u201d into this movement, but instead, it\u2019s just letting a violent radical activist explain herself.<\/p>\n<p>The headline under Armbruster\u2019s picture is \u201cAmerican Antifa: A woman\u2019s journey from Girl Scout to anarchist street warrior.\u201d Is that an atypical journey? Or is it where the Girl Scouts are aiming these days?<\/p>\n<p>Roston churned up the sympathetic scouting angle. \u201cEven as she engaged as an Antifa activist, she worked for six years as a day camp coordinator for the Girl Scouts of America National Capital Region. She\u2019d been a Scout herself as a girl and can still recite the \u2018God and Country\u2019 creed. Over the years, she has worked as a children\u2019s camp director, nonprofit fundraiser and swim coach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCamp,\u201d she said, \u201cis such an important part of kids\u2019 growth.\u201d Did she teach them street violence?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re told Armbruster was \u201cborn to a well-off family in suburban New York,\u201d and it\u2019s surprisingly common that these angry revolutionaries grew up comfortably in the suburbs. She engaged in activism at the expensive private enclave known as St. Lawrence University in northernmost New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Kenneth Gould, a sociologist now at CUNY Brooklyn, was on that faculty, and recalled Armbruster as a sharp student and \u2018far-left progressive.\u2019 Her honors thesis focused on the \u2018organizational structures\u2019 of protests against the Free Trade Agreement.\u201d Professors incubate far-left radicals on campus with their \u201csocial justice\u201d teachings.<\/p>\n<p>Armbruster told her supportive Reuters reporter that \u201cthe seeds of her dissent\u201d were planted \u201cwhen she learned about World War II and Hitler as a child,\u201d and \u201cshe developed a revulsion for Nazis, fascists and state wrongdoing.\u201d She said, \u201cMy family is from Germany. And you learn all the horrible things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This led to her aspiration to not only \u201cdeplatforming\u201d her enemies, but hurting them. \u201cYou can embarrass Nazis, which makes it harder for them to recruit,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can beat them up and then they\u2019re embarrassed.\u201d Her best friend cracked they like to deplatform with \u201cpunching or kicking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reuters doesn\u2019t avoid the point that Armbruster has a long arrest record, but it\u2019s very common for her violent actions to be dismissed by judges.<\/p>\n<p>Antifa hates Trump, so that makes them great. \u201cAntifa, short for \u2018anti-fascist,\u2019 achieved a mythic and mysterious stature in Trump\u2019s America, serving as a whipping boy for the president and his supporters.\u201d Reuters touted how this year, the Department of Justice (ahem, under President Joe Biden) declared that \u201cwhite supremacist groups, not Antifa, stand as the most significant domestic terror threat to the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This only underlines that the Democrats as a party claim to abhor \u201cinsurrection,\u201d and then support it when it marches under banners of \u201canti-fascism\u201d and \u201cBlack Lives Matter.\u201d This goes double for liberal media outlets, which undercut their boasts for democracy and civility every time they roll out the red carpet for \u201canarchist street warriors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters like to imagine themselves as the nation\u2019s most powerful defenders of democracy, and on occasion, project themselves as enforcers of political civility. 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