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There are COUNTLESS other examples of prominent fascist violence in the modern era. But these are some majorly influential touchstones that have deeply impacted me over the last few decades and are constantly in my mind.
It's sickening that they're not more widespread reference points.
And in 2022, the fascist furry Benjamin Jeffrey Smith opened fire on a protest in Portland, ultimately killing two people (one was paralyzed and went through a long slow death).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandale_Park_shooting
In 2021, Lyndon McLeod, a notable reply guy of Travis J I Corcoran (the prominent neonazi Clarkhat on twitter), went around Denver gunning down 6 people he suspected of being antifascists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Denver_and_Lakewood_shootings
Less directly "antifa", but let's not forget the murder of Garrett Foster a libertarian and rare good boog, who sincerely cared about BLM and showed up to defend a protest in Austin and was gunned down by Daniel Perry (who was later pardoned by the GOP governor):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Garrett_Foster
In 2020, after years of nonstop talk among fascists about preparing for The Day Of The Rope where they would go door-to-door executing all antifa, three individuals had a go at trying this to assassinate a couple they incorrectly thought were members of Atlanta Antifa:
https://truthout.org/articles/anti-fascist-group-targeted-for-murder-by-far-right-wont-back-down/
Then probably the only one of these that you've heard about because national media actually covered it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack#Victims
A ton of fascist violence kicked off in 2016, energized by Trump's campaign. But in 2017 a local black metal nihilist who marched alongside Identity Evropa and Joey Gibson's crew, murdered two people on the Portland light rail, screaming about antifa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Portland_train_attack
Then, in 2010 Luke was gunned down and paralyzed in downtown Portland by neonazis for his work as an antifascist. At the same time a local neonazi aggressively solicited information trying to build a kill list of RCA members for further assassinations:
https://threewayfight.org/local-anti-racist-shot-in-downtown-portland/
In 2007, the Australian Jock Palfreeman intervened in a brutal fascist attack on some Romani kids in Bulgaria and killed a fascist in self-defense. Anti-Romani racism was so intense that a white kid defending Romani let to vast outcry and a 20 year sentence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Palfreeman
In the early 00s, anarchists were regularly barraged with news of fascist attacks on anarchists and antifascists in Russia. Infamously local nazis one time even threw a bomb at the tame hippies serving Food Not Bombs.
Timur was stabbed to death for serving FNB:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur_Kacharava
In 1998 antifa activists Lin Newborn and Daniel Shersty were abducted off the streets of Las Vegas, tortured and murdered by a neonazi gang, this double-murder by fascists catalyzed a ton of antifascist work nationwide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Newborn
By the late 80s neonazi gangs openly controlled the streets of Portland and attacked anyone they suspected of being jewish or queer. This included a variety of murders, but the beating to death of a random sweet Ethiopian immigrant catalyzed a lot of pushback:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Mulugeta_Seraw
Because conservative freakouts since 2017 have completely warped the media landscape, I want to compile a thread of some contemporary instances of fascist violence against antifascists that were hugely influential on everyone I know 🧵