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by electricviolet 2190 days ago
For the record, the WH response is false -- the red triangle is not a symbol used by antifa.
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It's wrong to generalize from one page linked to a specific city in the Netherlands; during WW2 there was a small concentration camp at Amersfoort, a suburb of Utrecht about 10km from the city center. That likely resonated with contemporary anti-fascists in Utrecht, but the red triangle is absolutely not in general use as an Antifa symbol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amersfoort_concentration_camp

This is just a random Facebook page.
Further, it's just a random FB page with only a couple hundred followers. The actual antifa symbol is completely different.
It’s also their colors and groups sometimes coöpt imagery of their adversaries, so it’s not unprecedented for a repressed group to take a symbol back for themselves (not saying antifa is repressed, but they act on behalf of other groups).
Fascists were not exactly fans of anti-fascists, so while I'd definitely agree that Antifa isn't currently repressed, this has not always been the case.
[edit: On second thought I'll not walk into this minefield of a thread quite this nonchalantly with an "actually".]

The symbol does exist in a certain context of Antifa/ARA imagery, but if you use it in full context it just makes the Trump team look even worse, surprised the media hasn't picked up on this angle yet.