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Noam Chomsky calling Antifa a "major gift to the right."

To be fair to Noam here, the reason he called it a major gift to the right wasn't because he was indicating it would expand their influence. He was more along the lines of thought that the right is simply BETTER at the whole violence thing. In essence, if the left goes violent then the right is far more prepared to use those tools of social interaction than the meeker left it.

"When confrontation shifts to the arena of violence, it's the toughest and most brutal who win – and we know who that is. That's quite apart from the opportunity costs – the loss of the opportunity for education, organising, and serious and constructive activism."

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