By now, everybody knows what happened in Charlottesville, VA this weekend, Right? Or do they . . .
"White American Neo-Nazi Alt-Right Racist" Mows down 19 at Counter-Protest, One Dead.
Trump's response "Weak and Un-Presidential."
Va. Gov. Terry McAuliffe hailed as hero for his comments "I have a message to all the white supremacists and the Nazis who came into Charlottesville today. Our message is plain and simple: go home."
By now, every major news outlet has flooded the airwaves, cable news and broadcast news with the meme that hundreds of "racists" and "Alt-Right" bigots descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the local governments discussions about removing Confederate General Robert E. Lee's statue. The media could not have planned the controversy any better, and the unfortunate death of a counter-protester was the piece de resistance.
Can everybody just stop a minute and catch their collective breath? Is every citizen who showed up to voice their objective to the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue automatically an Alt-Right White Supremacist? Well, yeah, if you listen to the characterization of events by the media. When the pro-statue protestors show up for a torch light vigil, and the Antifa show up ready to engage in violence, who's fault is it?