I've been seeing a lot of laughing over the ridiculousness of Antifa and Black Lives Matter being considered just an 'idea' by the left. You're all correct in your sentiments for laughing, because it is ridiculous. Antifa and Black Lives Matter are far more than ideas -- they are highly organized groups working in unison for an ulterior political agenda.
However, one comment that stuck out to me was where someone here on this site said (paraphrasing) 'Given that Antifa is burning down businesses, I guess that must make Antifa a pretty dangerous idea.'
This is how the left wants to shift the overton window. They want to conflate ideas with organization so that they can weaponize the obfuscated differences against conservatives and the 1st Amendment agenda. If they can get more conversations started to that effect, even if they're done mockingly or in jest, it has an effect on the universal perception of how people interpret ideas with regard to the actions by organized groups.
It starts with us mocking Antifa being considered just an 'idea' in Portland. From there, the Left may try to use our mockery as the foundation for conflating the support of Trump or Conservative values with something inflammatory or irreconcilable (like, say, white supremacy).
Be mindful of your language and the words that you speak. I fear that there are forces who are playing upon the connotations.
Ideas don’t commit physical acts.
Again, I understand this. However, that is irrelevant if you can convince people to believe that ideas DO commit physical acts. Remember, the left has championed the ideas that silence is violence and words are violence. Those beliefs are the exact same thing as saying that ideas commit physical acts. The point that I am making is that if they can start more conversations to that effect (even if in a different manner of speaking), then they can shift the universal perception of people outside the left that ideas actually are complicit in the commission of physical acts (which, in essence, makes them dangerous).