‘Anti-Hate’ Southern Poverty Law Center Partner Funds Violent Canadian Antifa

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It shouldn’t be a big demand for left-wing groups to disavow Antifa violence wherever it occurs and certainly not to partner with the movement or its supporting organizations. This is especially the case for bellwether leftist groups, such as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), whose moral authority and influence is so strong within the left-wing universe. So why is the SPLC partnering with such a group in Canada?

Just like here in the United States, Antifa in Canada is a big problem. Recently, it issued a statement to a Canadian broadcaster that read, “Sometimes, it is necessary to go against what the mainstream considers ‘acceptable,’ to break the law in order to do the ethical thing.” Such Antifa “ethics” are routinely put on display north of the border.

Over the last few years, Canadians have watched Antifa assault journalists, batter innocent bystanders, destroy public and private property, and even firebomb buildings. Events Antifa deems “fascist” or “hateful,” including Christian and standard conservative events, are routinely obstructed by way of onsite violence, phoned-in death threats, or, as in one instance this month, public defecation.

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Recently, Antifa garnered national news coverage in Canada when a group of its members, including a Syrian immigrant, were filmed outside one such forum physically intimidating an elderly woman with a walker and shouting in her face, “Nazi scum, off our streets.” The forum was organized by political commentator Dave Rubin along with candidates of the People’s Party of Canada: a new conservative political party which.

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Reports and other footage from the event recorded dozens of other attendees being shoved, spat on, and subjected to the same “Nazi scum” chants as was the elderly lady (whose relatives, I should add, apparently fought actual Nazis in World War II). Officers arrested several Antifa members as a consequence of their violence.

That incident was apparently a response to an op-ed appearing in the local newspaper. It accused Rubin and his guests of “ushering people into the neo-Nazi movement.”

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Behind the op-ed was an outfit called the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAN), a self-described “hate-monitoring” organization based in Toronto. Not only does CAN model itself on the SPLC, it maintains a partnership with the group, which has included receiving SPLC funding and support.

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CAN has actually expressed support for the Antifa movement, including its belligerence, balaclava-wearing intimidation tactics, and even its extremist violence. CAN Chairman Bernie Farber, for instance, has praised the use of “muscular resistance” as an alternative to “peaceful protest.” Another CAN official, Richard Warman, has reportedly provided funding to violent Antifa groups.

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The SPLC must disavow its northern partner for defending, embracing, and empowering Antifa both in Canada and indirectly elsewhere. As in America, globalist extremism in Canada is accelerating.

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