08-20-2017, 10:07 AM
(08-19-2017, 11:29 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: With regards to the protestors, Matt can speak more to this, but there legitimately were a ton of locals who came out to speak against this. The Nazi groups were the bigger outsiders. I mean, the murderer drove down from Ohio and the woman he killed was from Charlottesville.
Yeah, there were a ton of locals, and there were a lot of folks that came from the surrounding area. There were hundreds of Virginia clergy, there were groups from the Shenandoah Valley, from Richmond, from NoVA, all coming to C'ville to stand against the racist carpetbaggers. Charlottesville is a very liberal city. It surrounded by a county that is less so, and the city isn't some liberal utopia, but it is very liberal, and the people came out against the racist groups that descended on their city. The group that the terrorist drove his car into was primarily a group of Virginia DSA members.
Now, I won't say none of the locals got violent, because I know of at least one that turned a spray paint can (thrown at him by a white supremacist) into a flame thrower. Albeit he did it to protect an elderly white man who is another local and was there to counter-protest and was frightened because racist shitstains were coming at him, but still. Anyway, most of the violence was committed by those from out of town. I feel like that is often the case in these situations, because people don't want to destroy their own community.
