/u/BoiseNTheHood on Why do you think a lot of republicans aren't backing up Trump's Charlottesville comments?

Goes into pretty solid detail about the event. Clearly they had their spot... and Antifa thought they could drive them off it via violence. No antifa... no violence.

Again, that's not what it says. From my understanding, it actually explains that the chaos began when the alt-right protesters refused to cooperate with the police and use the protected entrance they had set up for them. This forced the police to scramble and ultimately stretch themselves too thin, leaving them woefully unprepared to deal with the conflict between the alt-right and the counterprotesters.

Thomas reported that the force offered rally attendees a protected entrance into the park from the north, something that he says alt-right organizers refused to do.

"We had a plan to bring them in at the rear of the park," Thomas said in a Monday press conference in Charlottesville. "They had agreed to cooperate with the plan. Unfortunately, they did not follow the plan. They began entering at different locations in and around the park, and we had to quickly adjust our force to facilitate the process."

You seem to think that the violence on the part of antifa is acceptable somehow?

Never said it was. Just that it isn't equivalent to what the alt-right did that day. When one side kills someone and brutally beats someone else with sticks and planks, and the other side doesn't, it makes no sense to pretend that both sides were equally bad.

Let me ask this... if they're not there that day... what happens?

I mean, the same logic applies in reverse. If the Nazis and racists weren't there that day... what happens?

In reality, both sides had legal permits to protest and were allowed to be there. So blaming only the counterprotesters for showing up and exercising their right to protest is pretty biased, to say the least.

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