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Pluvious

(4,310 posts)
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 11:24 AM Aug 2017

I Went to Charlottesville During the Protests. Heres What I Saw

The attitude of people around Charlottesville—the silent majority—deserves to be noted. They were almost universally upset, blindsided, and resentful that these groups showed up in their community to drag down its reputation and fight their ideological proxy wars.
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What the event does demonstrate is the looming danger of identity politics run amok. This is what is in store if we are consumed by the tribal politics that have destroyed so many other countries.
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Though many have now jumped to conclude that the events in Charlottesville show the need to give in to the desire of people to tear down statues, this will only serve to strengthen and embolden the radicals—on both sides—to step up their efforts to plunge the nation into constant social unrest and civil war.
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This history is worth remembering and even celebrating. It shouldn’t be buried because a few evil men have twisted it to serve their causes. Nor should it be used to attack and haunt the living.

http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/14/went-charlottesville-protests-heres-saw/
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I Went to Charlottesville During the Protests. Heres What I Saw (Original Post) Pluvious Aug 2017 OP
Another pious republican promoting false equivalency between nazis and anti-nazis. The_Casual_Observer Aug 2017 #1
Crap article written by an idiot. n/t Downtown Hound Aug 2017 #2
If you're careful to avoid insulting the Nazis everything will be fine... Girard442 Aug 2017 #3
 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
1. Another pious republican promoting false equivalency between nazis and anti-nazis.
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 11:31 AM
Aug 2017

Take a glace at the other articles in that "news".

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