- Oct 2017
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The president did not answer questions from reporters about whether he rejected the support of white nationalists or whether he believed the car crash was an example of domestic terrorism.
Right now there is a petition out to formally recognize Black Lives Matter (BLM) as a domestic terrorist group (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/formally-recognize-black-lives-matter-terrorist-organization). For people to want BLM to be recognized as a terrorist group and not groups such neo-Nazi and KKK, is ridiculous. Whenever people of color stand against injustice or inequality it is deemed as negative or un-American. The NFL sit down protest of the national anthem is taking over the media. Players are being ostracized and threatened, while Trumps continues to condemn them for not showing respect for out troops but he still does not hold the protester groups responsible for violence that happened at the rally.
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Mr. Trump's reaction drew praise from neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, which wrote: "Trump comments were good. He didn't attack us. He just said the nation should come together. Nothing specific against us... No condemnation at all."
The comment in the Daily Stormer from a neo- Nazi subjectively suggest that the President was in agreement with their actions at rally. The commenter made seem like Trump could be in cahoots with them, with the use of his persuasive language, using words such as "condemn". To me condemnation can only come from a hierarchy or someone within your community, someone that you could possibly admire and as stated in the previous paragraph the white nationalist were working to "fulfill Trump's promises".
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In the aftermath of the rally and the car ramming, some criticized the police handling of the rally. Claire Gastañaga, executive director of the Virginia ACLU, wrote that "The situation that occurred was preventable" and the ACLU's lawsuit, which resulted in a federal court granting an injunction allowing the rally to go forward at Emancipation Park, "did not cause it."[146] Gastañaga wrote that: "The lack of any physical separation of the protesters and counterprotesters on the street was contributing to the potential of violence. [Police] did not respond. In fact, law enforcement was standing passively by, waiting for violence to take place, so that they would have grounds to declare an emergency, declare an 'unlawful assembly' and clear the area."[146] On August 12, investigative news organization ProPublica published an article reporting that Virginia State Police troopers and Charlottesville police "wearing protective gear watched silently from behind an array of metal barricades" and allowed "white supremacists and counterprotesters to physically battle" without intervening. A. C. Thompson wrote that in "one of countless such confrontations," police watched passively as "an angry mob of white supremacists formed a battle line across from a group of counterprotesters, many of them older and gray-haired, who had gathered near a church parking lot. On command from their leader, the young men charged and pummeled their ideological foes with abandon. One woman was hurled to the pavement, and the blood from her bruised head was instantly visible."[97]
It's interesting that the police took a bystander approach to this rally. In the media we have have seen countless amounts of innocent victims being slain by the police in the defense that they were scared and in the Charlottesville rally, the police idled around until something happened. If the police are too afraid to do their jobs adequately then they don't have them or need more extensive training.
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"We all must be united and condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Let's come together as one!" He said, "we condem in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides."[207][208][209] He added, "What is vital now is a swift restoration of law and order."[209]
This quote is the stance that Trump took for the Charlottesville riots. The statement weighed the actions of the white supremacist and Neo Nazi groups as the same actions of counter protesters such as Black Lives Matter and Anti-Racists Action. The counter protesters were there to refute the hate and evil that white supremacists groups promoted. The counter protesters were reactionary, they gave what they were met with. Did Trump expect the counter protesters to just idle as they probably trampled,spat on, pushed and hit repeatedly? At some point of the riot, the counter protesters were practicing self defense and even when things settled down, a car came crashing into a innocent crowd of people resulting in 1 death.
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Tensions increased on the evening of Friday, August 11 when a group of white nationalists—variously numbered at dozens[79] or around 100[80]—marched through the University of Virginia's campus while chanting Nazi and white supremacist slogans, including[65] "White lives matter"; "you will not replace us"; and "Jews will not replace us."[6]
White supremacy groups have a long history of radical hatred and killing.The protesters came to the rally spewing hate with malicious intent. They wanted violence to break out because if they didn't, they would have not brought weapons or been yelling hateful chants. The protester need to be called out for who they are and that is domestic terrorists.
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