I don't intend this to be a callout, but this crimethinc post on @IGD_News is offensive to those of us on the ground in Charlottesville.pic.twitter.com/2kaFyg9RXp
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I don't intend this to be a callout, but this crimethinc post on @IGD_News is offensive to those of us on the ground in Charlottesville.pic.twitter.com/2kaFyg9RXp
I don't disagree with their analysis of the state's complicity, but James Fields drove into a crowd of 500 people. We were not a few dozen more antifascists away from that not happening.
The Nazis were coming to Charlottesville no matter what. The state's complicity is their failure to take our community's warnings seriously and end the fascist threat before it started.
We were also not deterred by #J20 from organizing in any way. Local asks in Charlottesville were clear and were rooted in the safety concerns of our Black communities based on past events over *decades*.
I have seen many bad takes on Charlottesville from antifascist and anarchists who weren't here and know nothing about this community or organizing in Appalachia and the south.
I'm sorry, are you a J20 defendant? @crimethinc is an anonymous project, but participants are from the South, were in Charlottesville, etc. Surely you agree there would have been more people in Charlottesville if not for many kinds of state repression.
I'm referring to the insinuation that the presence of J20 defendants *specifically* would have somehow averted James Fields' attack. Which is impossible to conclude.
The facts are that Fields drove into a crowd of 500 people hours after the rally area was cleared. There's no evidence that suggests his premeditated act would have been different if we were 800 or 1000.
There, however, *is* evidence that the statue mob on August 11 contributed to lower turnout on August 12. And Heather herself almost didn't attend because of it, choosing at the last minute to go in solidarity with her friend.
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