Re: Do you know me? I was at a white supremacists' rally.
Alt Right fascists include neo-nazis and KKK.
Lets assume for a second that the Neo-Nazi movement in america is wholly and completely equatable to the Nazi movement of Germany in 1940s...
Even if that's the case, the White Nationalism movement, or the "Alt Right", has within it's ranks people who identify as Nazi's and with the KKK. They also have individuals who do not identify with either of those groups or their full tenets.
Does the fact that Nazi's are part of that movement condemn the entire movement as Nazi's? Does this "a group is defined by it's most extreme elements" mentality cut across all instances, or is it isolated here?
The reason I ask this is a recent news story I read where an individual who was hosting a protest to keep civil war memorials in Richmond has cancelled the protest in the wake of Charlottesville. He does not subscribe to the ideology of Nazis, he does not believe in white surpemacy, he's not a member of the KKK, and he stated he had no desire for his protest to simply be a magnet that brings out of area radicals to punch on other out of area radicals. He felt the statutes that are threatened in Richmond are a piece of history and of the local culture and wished to see them preserved, but his political stance did not go beyond that.
If Charlottesville's violence didn't happen, this man's protest in Richmond likely would not have been cancelled. Had it not been cancelled, undoubtedly, like maggots (quite appropriate) to dead flesh, there would be these nationalist, nazi, and KKK styled individuals and groups who would have still shown up. Yet that would not any more have made the guy organizing the protest a "nazi" than he is now, on the day in which he's cancelled it. His views, purposes, and intent for being at the protest then would have been the same as it was today prior to canceling it.
This is, in part, my hesitance with this ridiculous notion I've seen perpetrating the internet which seems to go like this: "Nazi's support genocide and killing non-whites THEREFORE Being a Nazi inherently is a violent threat THEREFORE it's justified to deny them speech and physically assault them". This logic, even with actual true Neo-Nazi's, would be troubling but at least in some twisted and contorted way I can see where the person is coming from with their argument. However, this logic falls apart immensely when one is applying it to individuals who you have zero credible way to know supports or identifies as the violent genocidal murderous tenets of Nazism, except that they're at a march about something that is NOT those specific tenets, near people who are clearly showing themselves to be nazis.
