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Boston alt-right rally attracts 20 people, counter-protest estimated at 15,000

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Averon

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Don't know if this was posted, but I wanted to share because I am just besides myself at the metal gymnastic and whining going on.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/my-...her-whines-over-outing-by-anti-fascist-group/

Kuhn says he’s not a racist, but that he traveled the nearly 500 miles from Honeoye Falls to Charlottesville to protest the removal of a Confederate monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park.

“It’s a piece of history, and I thought that it should remain,” Kuhn said. “It’s important to me that we preserve American history no matter how ugly the past is it’s associated with.”

“I’m not a neo-Nazi,” he insisted. “I don’t belong to a German workers’ party from 1933. I’m a moderate Republican.”

Other white supremacist marchers from Saturday’s deadly melee have made similar claims, like Washington State University College Republicans president James Allsup, who said, “They have no proof that I’m a racist” when confronted with photos of himself at the white supremacist rally.

“I can’t live in this community anymore. I’m in the process of figuring out what I’m going to do,” he complained. “I’m 21 years old and now my life is over in this area.”
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How can they reason in their heads that attending a neo-Nazi rally, being a regular on the Daily Stormer, and marching to keep up confederate propaganda doesn't make you question whether or not you're bigoted?
 
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mike6467

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Averon said:
Don't know if this was posted, but I wanted to share because I am just besides myself at the metal gymnastic and whining going on.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/my-...her-whines-over-outing-by-anti-fascist-group/

How can they reason in their heads that attending a neo-Nazi rally, being a regular on the Daily Stormer, and marching to keep up confederate propaganda doesn't make you question whether or not you're bigoted?
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They can't. They aren't trying. They're trying to give the perception to the people who are only half paying attention that they aren't that bad and this whole thing wasn't nearly what the media is making it out to be. There are still massive amounts of people who are only half paying attention to this, so they're going to keep pushing this narrative, and stories like these will garner sympathy because so many people who don't see the whole picture will believe the things he's saying.

It's part of the reason I keep hearing that the crying Nazi video shouldn't be shared. We know he's spouting bullshit and actively contradicting things he'd said earlier. However out of context, that video seems like a man who didn't really do anything wrong being harassed by antifa and now unfairly being arrested. The moderate who's seeing this in their peripheral won't do the research to know how many lies he's peddling, they won't watch the VICE documentary. They'll just see it as supporting the both sides narrative and think "well, they did have a permit, and from the way he's talking it doesn't seem like they were looking for a fight, I'd be scared if they were threatening to put me in jail there too."

They know what they are. They're just trying to get enough people to think they're something else.

Edit: Referring to stuff like this:

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TyrantII

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Averon said:
Don't know if this was posted, but I wanted to share because I am just besides myself at the metal gymnastic and whining going on.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/my-...her-whines-over-outing-by-anti-fascist-group/




How can they reason in their heads that attending a neo-Nazi rally, being a regular on the Daily Stormer, and marching to keep up confederate propaganda doesn't make you question whether or not you're bigoted?
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Because they're snowflakes that live a consequence free bubble of their own self righteous propaganda.


Or they're lying. To promote their brand with a softer message.
 
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Vipershark

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Joe said:
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White-nationalism spotted at 'free speech' rally.

Complete with basic math and spelling errors.

Source: https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/898980188494680065
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uh... you know what 14 words means, right?
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/14-words

I mean, to be fair I wouldn't expect a shirt with the word "familys" on it to really get the math right either but I think it was intended as a paraphrasing of the original rather than a count of the words actually on the shirt...
 
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