Both are racist and homophobic, but one protests "peacefully", the other uses violence, even against innocent bystanders.

One is also like 12 people.

Bingo! And do you know what happened when people had civilized discussion instead of typical leftist harassment campaigns and antifa style violence? Megan Phelps, the granddaughter of Fred Phelps, the founder of WBC, had her eyes opened, left the church, and now lobbies /against/ their kind of hatred.

even our ancestors understood back in the early 1900's and the beginning of the labor movement,that violence only gave the state the excuse to exercise violence.

and nobody does violence better than the state.

I have the exact same issue with black bloc anarchists.

Exactly. It falls under the umbrella of the usual leftist ideal of "it's okay for me, but not for thee".

Actually you're right about WBC I think, I don't recall ever hearing anything racist come out of them. Antifa, on the other hand, (and many other far leftists) have displayed blatant racism time and again. I just saw a video where a WHITE antifa member was yelling at a black cop, calling him not just a "race-traitor", but also somehow feeling perfectly justified in loudly and proudly calling him a "ni**er".

The whole group, maybe not, but there are as many, or more, racists as there are on the alt right, but the antifa members think it's ok to be racist in the name of "diversity", that it's okay to be racist against people of color who don't toe the anti-Trump line.

That was just one example. Don't forget the Jewish "civilian" who was beaten up and called a nazi by antifa /just in case/ he was right-wing, because he "looked white". Or the two marines who were put in hospital, after being attacked because of their military garb. The beating continued even after they identified themselves as Hispanic, only now the antifa thugs also started yelling "spics" and "wetbacks".

Both are vile, antifa is worse.

Antifa uses violence, that makes them worse. On top of that, they use /indiscriminate/ violence.

(In)discriminate*, and yes it's better, although only ever so slightly. Indiscriminate violence means antifa attacks "civilians", ie those who have nothing to do with the political BS going on nearby, and just happen to be in the area on their own business.

And don't try to play word games with me. Saying one thing is better than another doesn't automatically mean, or even imply, that the first thing is in any way good. A cold is better than the flu, doesn't mean I want to catch either.

Exactly, and that's what antifa is guilty of.

Maybe Al Gore can have the antifa leaders sleep over his house like he did Fred phelps