Torch-bearing white nationalists march ahead of alt-right rally(Charlottesville)

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My grandfather shot fascists. Smart man.

That's a good point - virtually all of these alt-right protesters had grandfathers or great-grandfathers who fought the Nazis. They're all rolling over in their graves now over the idea that such immediate descendants are idolizing the very thing they saved the world from.

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So, was there any violence outside of the stuff with the car?

Yes, alt-right have been beating up counter-protesters all day.

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Extremely normal person behaivour to come into a thread about white supremacists and start yelling about people wanting reparations.

Yeah. I'm SURE David isn't at all racist. That's definitely the first thought I had!

Oh I know David is a racist from every time he talks about Palestinians. This is just the first time I've seen him nuzzle so close to actual white supremacy.

It's pretty ironic considering all the antisemitism on display from the side he's excusing.

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I don't support BDS, but to be fair it's a political movement targeted at the current hyper-conservative Israeli government, not at Jews or Israelis as a whole. If Israel elected a socialist government that included both Jews and Arabs in the winning coalition, BDS would be over in a flash.

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DSA support BDS and are just as vile as -- and more dangerous than -- the organizers of the rally. Which doesn't excuse the latter group at all, btw.

Supporting a nonviolent, voluntary boycott of Israel is worse than a neo-Nazi, White Supremacist rally that resulted in one of its participants employing an ISIS terrorist tactic to kill 1 person and injure over 20 others. You are a true piece of work.

Its the post that sums up DavidB. Incredibly misguided, unable to see the irony of defending neo-Nazis by pointing the figure at the BDS movement for anti-semitism.

I abhor neo-Nazis and am defending absolutely nobody

I mean, ok, but you're literally drawing an equivalency between a group of violent openly racist and antisemitic neo-Nazis, and the people who showed up to disagree with their racist and antisemitic beliefs .

And your justification for this is ... a small number of the people who showed up in that second group may have a political opposition to the current government of Israel, even though they love Jews enough to literally come die for the idea that they are not evil globalist scumcucks.

Do you really stand by your posts that these two groups (one of which wants you dead and the other of which will die for you) are equally bad?

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Do you really stand by your posts that these two groups (one of which wants you dead and the other of which will die for you) are equally bad?

Both want me dead and none will die for me. I absolutely think both are equally bad and also think those on the left are more dangerous than those on the right (but only due to the fact that they are politically stronger).

I just ... don't understand how you can honestly believe that.

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PS: What does the white star flag represent ? The one the KKK clown is holding ?

It's the "Bonnie Blue" flag, which some Confederate states flew in 1861 before they organized a national government with a flag.

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So were the Reddit sleuthers right?

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I just flipped over to Fox News to see how they're covering the story - turns out they're talking about electro-magnetic pulses over Guam after a North Korean nuke launch.

I flipped it by earlier today and that nimrod who primaried out Eric Cantor was on there blathering about how Trump's "both sides do it" stance is correct.

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YesYoureRacist Twitter account has started identifying folks and informing their employeers

That Twitter feed has apparently misidentified a few innocent people. That's outrageously not OK.

It's certainly fair to expose neo-Nazis, but you absolutely cannot implicate the wrong guy.

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Monuments aren't always meant to honor, sometimes they're just to remember......history.

False. Monuments are never just a neutral DYK