Buzzfeed on Nov 4 and right-wing false claims

From Buzzfeed:

As An Anti-Trump Group Gears Up For A Peaceful Protest, Conservatives Online Warn Of Civil War

Refuse Fascism is calling for a peaceful protest a day starting November 4th, but conservatives online are saying “antifa” writ large is calling for all-out violent war in the streets.

Conservatives online are seizing on a call for peaceful protest and casting it as a call for violent revolution online.

An anti-Trump group called Refuse Fascism is calling for a protest a day starting November 4th across the United States. Organizers are asking protesters to come out every day until the Trump administration is no longer in power.

Known best for its ubiquitous signs emblazoned with a black-and-white “NO!” signs, Refuse Fascism advocates for the removal of Trump in the belief that his administration is a step closer to a fascist American government.

Sunsara Taylor, one of the co-founders of the group, told BuzzFeed News that Refuse Fascism organizes “mass nonviolent political protests” — November 4 included — because “only a movement that draws in millions in nonviolent sustained political protest can create the kind of society-wide political crisis where this regime is removed from power.”

Taylor of Refuse Fascism told BuzzFeed News, “What they’re saying is completely false. They’re blatant lies, and they’re creating and intending to intimidate people who want to stand up to the Trump/Pence regime. It’s concerning that these lies are being spread and that they’re unleashing threats.”

The group also published statements condemning attacks on antifa — “There is NO moral ‘equivalence’ between those seeking to impose white supremacy and fascism, and those fighting against this nightmare” — and on the rash of conspiracy theories, calling them “lies and distortions by fascist web sites and trolls.”

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IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!

NOW IS the TIME WHEN WE MUST RISE UP and ACT to STOP the CONSOLIDATION of TRUMP MAGA FASCISM. For the lives of people here and around the world we must refuse unlawful and inhumane orders… we must fill the streets and town squares in non-violent protest—not stopping until we become millions — not relenting until this regime is no longer able to implement its program or maintain its hold on power.