Posted on August 14, 2018

CNN’s Cuomo Defends Antifa: Those Who Oppose Hate ‘Are on the Side of Right’

Joe Concha, The Hill, August 14, 2018

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo said late Monday that Antifa should not be equated with white supremacists, arguing that “in a clash between hate & those who oppose it, those who oppose it are on the side of right” even if they resort to “petty violence.”

“You attack cops, you slap the media, you are in the wrong, period,” Cuomo said in a commentary on “Cuomo Prime Time.” “But I argue to you tonight all punches are not equal morally.”

“In the eyes of the law, yes. But in the eyes of good and evil, here’s the argument: If you’re a punk that comes to start trouble in a mask and hurt people you’re not about any virtuous cause,” he continued. “You’re just somebody that’s going to be held to the standard of doing something wrong.”

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“Antifa or whoever … are malcontent or misguided, they are also wrong to hit, but fighting hate is right,” Cuomo said later. “And in a clash between hate & those who oppose it, those who oppose it are on the side of right.”

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Cuomo concluded on his primetime show that President Trump is “wrong to create a moral equivalency” between white supremacists and those who oppose them, even if “they resort to the same petty violence.”

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