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On Thursday, NBC’s Chuck Todd drew criticism when he decided to give Antifa, a radical leftists group recently designated by New Jersey as a domestic terrorist organization, a platform on his MCNBC show MTP Daily. But come Sunday’s Meet the Press, Todd doubled down and decided to have a so-called “debate” about whether their use of violence to shut down free speech was justifiable. Antifa supporter and Dartmouth Professor Mark Bray again appeared with Todd to spread his twisted ideas.
When describing what Antifa was, Todd downplayed the group’s radicalness by simply saying they were “a far-left political movement that argues it's necessary to confront hate groups sometimes with force.” No mention at all of their assaults on police, and innocent Trump supporters during the 2016 election, their attacks on reporters in Charlottesville, nor their “Welcome to Hell” chaos at the recent G20 summit in Germany.
“You seem to be a very small minority here who is defending the idea of violence, considering that somebody died in Charlottesville. Why do you defend confronting in a violent way,” Todd began the “debate” by asking Bray.
The leftist radical argued that the movement was not that small of a minority and claimed that their indiscriminate violence was somehow them exercising their right to “self-defense.” “I think that a lot of people recognize that when pushed, self-defense is a legitimate response to white supremacist and neo-Nazi violence,” Bray said.
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