I'm afraid that's incorrect. The statue was actually more of a pretext. Here's a poster used to advertise the event that explicitly names the organizers.pic.twitter.com/mN9zfCi5x9
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hope you all are aware that slavery exists TODAY in many parts of the world and it has NOTHING to do w/alleged "white supremacy" - if you didn't vote for trump it would have been killary, the butcher of benghazi https://www.newsweek.com/humans-sale-libyan-slave-trade-continues-while-militants-kill-and-torture-855118 …
You should look into trump inciting against somalis in maine in august 2016- I think it's stronger than Charlottesville but I guess media doesn't consider somalis important enough https://www.pressherald.com/2016/08/05/trump-statements-on-maine-somali-immigrants-draws-sharp-rebuke/ …
Weird. The video I saw had guys in Klan robes or waving swastika flags. Seriously, have you actually convinced yourself that a rally organized by white supremacists wasn't a white supremacist rally or is this some weird persuasion experiment? I actually lean to the latter.
So, you’re not trying to equate a martial affair with people who fought to defend slavery? Cool. That out of the way, let’s look at this latest attempt to defend the indefensible. First, there is a significant difference between one or more persons... /1
...who do “terrible things” and are also part of a group and people who are part of a group whose *primary* reason for existence are those terrible things. Yes, ISIS destroyed mosques, churches and some ancient monuments to ancient kings, and yes, some of the people... /2
...might have been affiliated with those mosques, churches, etc. did “terrible things”. Now contrast that with the Confederacy, whose Vice President, Alexander Stephens said, "[the Confederacy's] foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth... /3
...that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition." THAT is the Confederacy. Second, the idea that these monuments are “historical monuments” is sophistry. /4
The vast majority were built between 1900-1915 (Jim Crow) and 1960-1970 (Civil Rights era), are we really expected to believe it was mere coincidence that the two busiest time periods for building monuments took place at times when there was a concerted effort... /5
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