here's a spicy take: being a white antifascist does not make you a "good" white person. Doing "good" work (read: sometimes but most often not effective short-term stop-gap tactics) does not put you on a path to redemption. Doxxing Nazis is not your ticket to absolution.

Especially when being a *popular* white antifascist means that you can then pretend like the people who are wounding your white savior ego are evil, and perhaps even fascist, people. No work is good enough to excuse weaponizing it to defend yourself from personal criticism.

Leftists (whatever worth that term has nowadays) are so afraid of the right having ammo on social media. Who cares if some right wing blog publishes an article about how a popular white antifascist is actually a bad person. That doesn't make that white antifascist okay.

Also, de-platforming is a game of whack-a-mole -- getting individual racists fired and shutting down rallies doesn't resolve the fact that they are produced by an anti-black world, and if you don't get end that world, the kinds of people who act like WN will ALWAYS come back.

Sure, it's more likely that a white person who self identifies as antifascist won't suck to be around. But antifascism itself often does little to *end* racist violence, as the central purveyors of racist violence aren't "extremists," but the state/civil society/the world.

Antfascism does not make you a good person. Which is all to say you should watch this video of Fred Moten and Stefano Harney chatting about anti-fascist living vs non fascist living and whiteness over a beer.