@McGentrix,
Of course you wouldn't support Neo-Nazis, the KKK or any other white supremacist group, and neither does Trump or anyone else regularly participating in this forum.
Calling out the violence committed by leftist and anarchist thugs in no way represents support for the loathsome white supremacists, despite the insistence of so many that it effectively does.
Charles Krauthammer, a leading Anti-Trump voice on the Right, had this to say:
Quote:What Trump is missing here is the uniqueness of white supremacy, KKK, and Nazism. Yes, there were bad guys on both sides. That’s not the point.
The brilliant but supremely arrogant Krauthammer is true to form when he describes it as
the point. It is not
the point, it is
his point and the point of Trump's critics who are like sharks circling in waters filled with chum.
At the top of the pyramid of 20th Century Evil sit four regimes and the empires they controlled: Mao Zedong and Communist China, The Soviet Union of Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin, Hideki Tojo and Imperial Japan, and Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany.
That many of the people demonstrating in Charlottesville this past weekend embrace the specific ideology of one of these monsters underscores the depravity of their views, but it didn't create a darkness so thick and deep that it rendered the fell shadows cast by other sources invisible and meaningless.
Contemporaneous critics of the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo or the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were almost certainly dismissed, scorned or even condemned by the majority of the intelligentsia and general public of the time, and yet in 2017 we find that the insistence that these actions, taken in an existential battle with two of the four Evil Empires of the 20th Century, constituted war crimes, has strong and widespread support.
If
the point is that the vile race supremacy ideology of the hate-mongering groups in Charlottesville is so singularly evil that it should obliterate any criticism of the violent and illegal thuggery taking place at the same time and in opposition to them, then I imagine that those making this point would agree that it should be applied to any consideration of the tactics used by the Allies in defeating military empires based on this ideology. We both know though that a great many of the people (some of whom participate in this forum) who insist the incredibly lethal bombing of Japanese and German cities during WWII amounted to war crimes would never agree with
the point.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with pointing out that along with the Neo-Nazi and KKK thugs there were Antifa and BLM thugs in Charlottesville. There is also nothing wrong with pointing out that not all of the demonstrators protesting the removal of the statute of Robert E. Lee were thugs or even white supremacists, just as not all of the counter-demonstrators were left-wing thugs. (The ratio of thug to decent person favored, I'm confident, the counter-demonstrators, but that also didn't create a light so bright that it obliterated the minimal luminescence that may have shined on the other side.) There is nothing wrong with it because it is true, and multiple truths can coexist at the same point in time.
