About Us

About anti-fascists

The entire site is dedicated to understanding what anti-fascism is and counter-programming against popular misconceptions, urban legends, and fascist propaganda.  Please, look around, and if you have questions we haven’t answered feel free to contact us through the FB page or Twitter account.

At the time this document is being written, we don’t have a direct contact form or e-mail address; that may change in the future and if we remember to do it we’ll update this document to reflect that.

About WeAntiFascists

1. Who owns this site?  Who are the writers?
   • None of your concern.  Not to be rude, but it isn’t.  Here’s what we aren’t though:
     • run by any government agency or employee thereof
     • scam artists trying to make a fast buck by jumping on a trendy buzzword
     • counter-revolutionary infiltrators trying to fracture and confuse anti-fascists
2. Who pays your expenses?
   • We don’t have any.  The domain name was gifted to us by an antifascist who is also a domain reseller, so that’s free to us.  The hosting space was donated by the same person, at no cost.  The only other investment we make is time, and we consider it time well spent and ask for no compensation.
   • We all have other income sources unrelated to the site; this is a public service, not a fundraising effort.We may on occasion offer information and links to other fundraising efforts, e.g. bail funds for protesters, but in no event will those funds be directed, controlled, operated by, or intended to benefit anyone behind the site.  We diligently avoid conflicts of interest.
   • For similar reasons, we won’t be offering “branded merch.”  Any half-wit with five minutes can go make an Antifa t-shirt themselves at one of a thousand or more different custom t-shirt sites, or make your own.  We simply don’t need or want your money, and we’re not going to be involved in turning a noble and principled ideology into a “brand.”
3. What’s the purpose of the site?
   • Correcting disinformation and misinformation; propagating media and political literacy; defusing and debunking urban legends and false claims related to anti-fascism.
   • To provide a canonical source for historical and position material; e.g. when someone claims “Antifa says,” they can check here to see if it’s something “Antifa said.”  It probably won’t be, unless what was said is something along the lines of “fascism is bad, m’kay?”
   • To drag infiltrators, profiteers, and frauds out into the light.  Nothing drives a fake nuts like someone successfully teaching others how to spot and resist them.  This isn’t really a “purpose” of the site, we’re just finding that it’s a handy side-effect.
4. You’re a fake!  This is a grifting site!  You’re a cop!
   • *shrug* So don’t read it.  Go away.  Feel free to tell all your friends how fake we are.  Loudly.  That way when they do their own checking and see there’s not a single thing here that in any way compromises or contradicts the principles of anti-fascism, they’ll know you’re a dumbass and stop paying attention to you.
5. This site is pretty dull-looking and basic, when are you going to make it flashy and cool?
   • We’re not.  There are a billion flashy, cool websites.  This is a reference and information site.  We wouldn’t even bother with article graphics if it weren’t for the reality that everyone expects it and they tend to think there’s something wrong if there aren’t graphics.
6. What’s with that stupid basic-as-hell logo?  Is that MS Paint for crying out loud?
   • We originally wanted to avoid any kind of logos or symbols; again, substance over style.  Plus we couldn’t find a single instance of an anti-fascist symbol that hadn’t been co-opted by bad actors. So we made a basic graphic with two letters, A and F, using the traditional black-and-red anti-fascist color scheme to make it clear that we’re a little different and not hung up on symbols.
   • That’s not just a stylistic decision, it’s also a statement of its own – anti-fascism isn’t a “brand” or “style” to us, it’s a way of life inherent to everything we do, all day every day, and have for most of all of our adult lives (and in some cases a chunk of our childhood and adolescence as well).
   • It also reinforces the idea that we’re not an “organization” or “group” or “party.”Finally, to paraphrase George Carlin, all those icons and flags and such are symbols, and we prefer to leave symbols to the symbol-minded.We confess to getting a slight giggle out of being AF af though.
7. Are you on Instagram/Snapchat/TikTok/platform-of-the-moment?
   • No, and we have no plans to be.  We aren’t trying to be “social media influencers” nor are we trying to hop trends.  The only reason we have a presence on Facebook and Twitter is the social media companies have made it impossible for anyone to know we’re here without it.
   • If you’re looking for the “antifa tiktok dance” or pictures of our dinner, you’re gonna be waiting a long time.
8. What is the proper spelling, capitalization, and pronunciation of “antifa?”
   • We prefer “AN tee fah” or “AN tie fah,” just as though you were saying (with your regional dialect) the first part of “anti-fascist,” which is what it is.  We’re a little lost on how people get “an TEE fah” out of it.
   • As to text rendering, we’ve been inconsistent about it but are trying to remember to stick with uncapitalized and hyphenated – “anti-fascism.”  Capitalizing like a proper noun is a subtle cue to think of us as an “organization” or “group,” like the Democratic Party™.  Anti-fascism isn’t any of those things, so we try to avoid that cue.
   • When we’re speaking specifically of “ourselves,” the anti-fascists behind this page, we capitalize and often use the “@” – “WeAntiFascists.”  We really don’t care to have that become a “brand” either, but it helps identify us as this specific group of anti-fascists.
9. Can I share (the thing)?
   • Absolutely.  That’s what it’s here for.