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In reply to the discussion: Portland antifa/right wing protests escalate to 'civil disturbance' [View all]Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)during the run up to the Iraq War in 2003. Also non-violent civil disobedience against prop. 8 in California for which I was arrested. I'm not opposed to non-violent resistance. There are times when I think it's the better and more wise choice, and I did that time. I'm just also not opposed to more aggressive forms of it when circumstances call for it.
Street fighting? Not much. Used to box when I was a teenager and got into a few fights in school. Also knocked a drunk, belligerent asshole on his ass one night a few years ago when he was harassing me and my wife on the way of The Dollar Tree, but that's pretty much it. He got up and wanted to fight and charged towards me, but a crowd had formed and held him back.
But would I be willing to fight Nazis in a street brawl if it came down to it? Fuck yes. And the truth is, I probably would have been involved in the battles of Berkeley a few years back if I wasn't recovering from heart surgery. As it was, I had to watch them on my phone in the hospital. But if I had been healthy at the time, you better believe I would have gone down and lent a hand to Antifa if I had been well enough.