Charlottesville VA Stuck Hosting (Arguably) Largest Hate Rally In Decades

The latest on the victims of Saturday's violence during the Unite The Right Rally in Charlottesville.


Heather D. Heyer was killed on Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., after a car crashed into demonstrators protesting a white supremacy rally.


Virginia State Police Lt. H. Jay Cullen and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates were killed Saturday when the helicopter they were riding in crashed.

Another 19 people were injured in the car attack according to The University of Virginia Medical Center.

At least 14 additional people were injured in clashes.

ABC News

A Charlottesville hospital says many of the patients injured after a car drove into a crowd of protesters at a white nationalist rally are improving.

A spokeswoman for the University of Virginia Health System said in a statement Sunday afternoon that nine of the patients the hospital treated have been released. Ten others are in good condition.

A day earlier, the hospital said five patients were in critical condition, four were in serious condition, six were in fair condition and four were in good condition.

The statement also says the hospital treated additional patients related to Saturday's events but that the hospital can't give an exact number.

Prayers for all

a reply to: queenofswords

Yep. When all else fails. Just say soros

a reply to: DancedWithWolves

I don't pray, but I have great sympathy for the families of the fallen.

just found this, thought it might be interesting enough to post here...

twitter.com...

I'd embed if I knew how...but neat little old video there!!

a reply to: dawnstar

I wonder if people gave the statue much thought before.

a reply to: dawnstar

It's also on Youtube:



It's called "Don't Be A Sucker"

The clip in the Tweet starts around 2:20 in this video.

Notice how the crowd was going along with it, until the man started to talk bad about Freemasonry. Hmm.

originally posted by: TruMcCarthy
Notice how the crowd was going along with it, until the man started to talk bad about Freemasonry. Hmm.

LOL ... I salute your persistence.

Straight out of central casting:

originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: whereislogic

Sadly, many of these groups are hyper-Fundamentalist Christian.

Trinitarian would be more accurate to say than "Christian". Or self-professed Christian. My first comment that is so many pages back now has some more information and history on nationalism&patriotism&Christendom and its recurring effects on human behaviour:
First Amendment Champions (playlist)

You need to do some major twisting of the bible though if you want to use any of it in support of nationalism or patriotism or the derivative ideologies and philosophies.

a reply to: whereislogic

I won't debate semantics ... they consider themselves Christian.

I don't disagree with your claims for about 95% of the Bible (perhaps).

But there are oft-quoted verses that are everything the hateful could want and more.

a reply to: starviego

Are you claiming the Klansman hoods, the Nazi flag and the Confederate flag are carried by paid actors?

Fascinating. Any evidence?

a reply to: Gryphon66

thank you...

originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: starviego

Are you claiming the Klansman hoods, the Nazi flag and the Confederate flag are carried by paid actors?

Fascinating. Any evidence?

Being a white nationalist means not dressing up like a buffoon. Obviously they are shills.

a reply to: Gryphon66

If you read Leviticus, polyester should have been the end of us all.

But, Ezekiel? "How do we get on that ride," Ancient Alien theorists ask?

Peace

a reply to: DancedWithWolves

Peace, may we see it.

originally posted by: starviego

originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: starviego

Are you claiming the Klansman hoods, the Nazi flag and the Confederate flag are carried by paid actors?

Fascinating. Any evidence?

Being a white nationalist means not dressing up like buffoons. Obviously they are shills.

In your opinion? Good enough, but based on facts, that claim is absurd.

There's photographs and video of multiple Nazi/White Supremacist/Nationalist rallies that employ the same outfits, flags and symbols.

It's literally commonplace.

a reply to: dawnstar

It makes sense that there should be common patterns in right-wing propaganda as they're appealing to people who are most susceptible to appeals to traditionalism and (ultra-) nationalism.

Looking at what Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil) was all about, the parallels are pretty obvious. Fundamentally, it was an appeal to rural Germans and their traditional agrarian lifestyle as the essence of the German people. This is all of course following the rise of the volkisch movements in Germany.

It's not unlike what is done in American politics on the Right with the "moral majority" and the notion that right-wing voters are somehow the "real Americans" who represent the "real America." It was no accident that Stephen Miller, who grew up in Santa Monica, California and went to Duke University (where he worked on debate projects with Richard B. Spencer), accused CNN's Jim Acosta of "cosmopolitan bias."

It hearkens back to the same rhetoric of all nationalist totalitarians. In a sad irony, this idea of "urban elites" who aren't part of the "real country" is something that has a long history of being used against Jews — and Miller is himself Jewish.

Then there's the scapegoating of minority groups who, adherents are told, are stopping those who are a part of the "real country" from their return to the greatness portrayed in golden age fallacies of yesteryear. A presumed gilded age that was the result of the tireless efforts of the ancestors of the majority group whose promised land was laid to waste by invading "others" who don't share the same racial/ethnic/genetic or cultural heritage.

More buffoonery. (It helps if you're drunk)

originally posted by: starviego

originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: starviego

Are you claiming the Klansman hoods, the Nazi flag and the Confederate flag are carried by paid actors?

Fascinating. Any evidence?

Being a white nationalist means not dressing up like a buffoon. Obviously they are shills.

Boy you sure are trying hard today aren't you?

Just because these people are too dumb to keep themselves from being thoroughly penetrated by law enforcement agencies doesn't mean they don't keep forming groups and having meetings and playing dress-up.

It just means they're stupid.