Argument about the differences between Nazi's and Antifa. Any reader is free to use any words from this w/o attribution, hopefully similar writers to college papers can find them to be discussion starters.

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It's been 15 years since this retired, emeritus professor had the privilege of teaching Edinboro students. But now, as the new school year begins, there's some advice I need to give you.

Republicans elected an inflammable president. Maybe every time he bursts into flames some young Nazi embers will pop out. Nazi's march through Jewish & liberal neighborhoods to provoke people. They masquerade as free speech or prayer rallies. Mass news media will oversimplify and sensationalize their provocation. That makes a false equivalence with Antifa. But personal and political histories of Nazism and Antifa are quite different.

Murderers like Dylann Roof and James Fields become mini "martyrs" to Nazi's. Their acts are often explained by mental illness and broken, violent families. Note how many murders are reported committed by such people versus murders by young leftists.

Hate movements like Nazism give off heat and [false, baleful] light. The Roof's are like vampire moths attracted to such light. Vampire moths can sting and bite. There's no evidence that Antifa youth come from such deforming home lives or commit unprovoked murder.

A commemorative of the Cable Street resistance says not "Kill the fascists," but "They shall not pass."

So what to do if there's a young Nazi in your room, dorm or class? Try to befriend and to educate him. See if he has friends that might be more open, but don't drink with them. Remonstrate with him, rebuke mildly. If he threatens specific individuals with great harm, you need to consider reporting this. Don't be [silent] "Good Germans."

RobertCogan,

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy

Authors Website: http://baloneyslicer.tripod.com/

Authors Bio:

I could be Bernie Sanders older brother by similarity. I was born in Manhattan, 1940, he, about a year later, in Brooklyn. I too am a white male American. A retired college professor of philosophy. We both were born of Jewish parents. I was in Harlem CORE, He in Chicago CORE. We both went to the University of Chicago; me 58 - 62, he 60 - 64 (I think.) And yet, I don't recall meeting him! U. of Chicago had plenty of progressive activists despite being a bastion of Milton Friedman. He went into politics in Vermont in '68 (?) and I settled that year into a college professorship in northwestern Pennsylvania.

I've been a long-time minor activist in the civil rights, anti-war, pro feminism movements and taught critical thinking and social philosophy. I've been a unionist, on the Board of Directors of a food co-op, an ACLU chapter president, a CASA, and an elected Green Party Borough Councilman in my small hometown. I'm happily married, for over 50 years, to a woman significantly responsible for my modest success in life. We have two great kids and one grandchild, for whom we hope there is a decent future! Recently I've been pushing Modern Monetary Theory.

Politically in 60 years I've been everything from a Libertarian in extreme youth, through socialist but now at last I just call myself a Utilitarian and Pragmatist. It avoids useless rhetorical arguments.