To say that Antifa has contributed to costs at Berkeley could be the understatement of the year When Antifa shut down a previous speech by Yiannopoulos in February members of the group beat several people and did 100 000 in property damage That doesn t include the damage done to the school s reputation as the home of the free speech movement And that s a pittance compared to the 1 million in damage Antifa did in Portland this year Political violence is costly 