Comment on Left wing fact checker admits Trump never called Charlottesville neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’

• Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No. No reasonable person would define “very fine people” as those who venerate someone who fought a war for the purpose of maintaining the institution of slavery.

  I have not heard any argument that convinces me that such statues and monuments ought to be kept.

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  • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not debating whether taking down the statue was right or not. My point of contention is that when Trump said very fine people there is no indication he was calling nazis and white supremists very fine people.

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    • Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I understand the argument here: Somehow, mixed in among those white supremacists and nazis were some very fine people who just happened to find common cause with racists and fascists, but remained morally and ethically seperate from the groups they were marching together in the streets with. I find this assertion unconvincing.

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      • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is your argument that having any view similar to a white supremists or Nazi that makes you a white supremists or Nazi?

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