>> It reminds me a lot of Charlottesville, where people showed up to try to shout over the white nationalists and it just ended up with a bunch of people getting run over by a car. As if something like that happening wasn't entirely predictable.
People showed up to exercise their own first amendment rights, which is how the whole free speech thing works.
Those with opposing points of view also showed up to demonstrate that ordinary people wouldn't be intimidated by white nationalists marching and carrying intimidating symbols from the past.
Are you suggesting that the best response to these regressive viewpoints is for ordinary decent folk to let them alone and do their own thing in peace? Cowardice.
That would only serve to embolden them, and an emboldened hate group is even more likely to engage in violent activity against the targets of their hate.
People showed up to exercise their own first amendment rights, which is how the whole free speech thing works.
Those with opposing points of view also showed up to demonstrate that ordinary people wouldn't be intimidated by white nationalists marching and carrying intimidating symbols from the past.
Are you suggesting that the best response to these regressive viewpoints is for ordinary decent folk to let them alone and do their own thing in peace? Cowardice.
That would only serve to embolden them, and an emboldened hate group is even more likely to engage in violent activity against the targets of their hate.