Donald Trump refuses to name the problem of white supremacist violence [View all]
Source: vox.com
His remarks on violence in Charlottesville were ignorance to the point of callousness.
Updated by Dara Linddara@vox.com Aug 12, 2017, 4:39pm EDT
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White nationalists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend against the removal of Confederate statues in public spaces. White nationalists attacked counter-protesters on Friday night, punching and kicking them and (reportedly) pepper-spraying them. One counter-protester was killed and several were injured when a car rammed into them after accelerating for over a block.
President Trump blamed both sides.
In a statement read before a scheduled bill signing for the Department of Veterans Affairs, he did everything but say “All Lives Matter” to avoid talking about who had perpetrated the violence. And he left plenty of opportunity for people who are inclined to assume that the problem lay with counterprotesters to do just that.
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This is not just a failure to condemn the white nationalists who were responsible for the bulk of the violence and disorder in Charlottesville with the same vehemence that Trump condemns “radical Islamic terrorism” during any attack of any size in the US or abroad. It is an actively misleading account of what happened.
It implies that both rally-goers and counterprotesters were equally to blame for violence, leaving the door wide open for Trump supporters to assume that “the left” started it...................................
Read more: https://www.vox.com/2017/8/12/16138896/trump-speech-charlottesville-many-sides
best headline I have seen yet. pass and tweet it around
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