I was wrong: U-Va. newspaper editor says he was naive about alt-right (1st amendment supporters)

[IronLionZion]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/16/i-was-wrong-u-va-newspaper-editor-says-he-was-naive-about-alt-right/?utm_term=.519f8bdd375d



Weeks before violent protests in Charlottesville turned to tragedy, Brendan Novak wrote a column in the University of Virginia student newspaper arguing that the city “should let the alt-right rally occur.”

In the column, Novak, an opinion editor at the Cavalier Daily, defended the constitutional rights of the white supremacist groups to assemble and express their views. He wrote that the city — and Black Lives Matter — should allow the “alt-right” to protest openly, and “watch as the rotting ideological foundation collapses under its own weight.”

After all, he thought, how could a “universally loathed” group with “downright repulsive views” thrive in the face of an inclusive and tolerant society?

But then, on Friday night, Novak, an incoming sophomore at U-Va., watched from his family’s home in Arlington videos of white nationalists marching through his campus with flaming torches, shouting racist taunts.

He realized in that moment that Saturday morning’s rally was “a disaster waiting to happen.” He stayed up late into the night, coming to terms with the scale — and severity — of the event, which would conclude with three people dead by the end of the weekend, a woman struck by a car that plowed through a crowd and two state police officers who died in a helicopter crash.

Charlottesville has had several KKK and nazi rallies this year. I get the temptation to support the first amendment rights of views we don't like, but not when it is advocating violence, death, and hate crimes. It should be easier for people to draw the line, and understand when it was crossed.

"directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio (KKK case)

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. Brendon Novak - and incoming college Sophomore has more of a moral code than

the POS in the WH and all of congress who are complicit in this evil...

Call him what he is - POS in the WH - pure evil!!

[KitSileya]

2. Always with the white man Johnny-come-late, never with the minority person in the beginning

Why is it that the media keeps interviewing white men who have "realized their errors" about these things, but never listens to the persons of color and other minorities who point out the egregiousness from the very beginning? Trump voters, 'former' whiter nationalists et. al. are in the media all the times, but Black women? Never. Yet the latter have been pointing out the horror since it started, and they have been right in the warnings every. single. time.

[IronLionZion]

3. To influence others to do the same

To get moderates and others off the fence and wake up

Shepherd leaves his flock to find the one who is lost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Lost_Sheep

[KitSileya]

4. It invisibilizes minority people, is what it does.

It gives greater credence and weight to white men, as usual.