Questions about Charlottesville

Raalnan Seven
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

I’ll start off by saying that I’m a bit skeptical about the details that we have been getting. A few immediate questions come to mind.
First of all, can you remember seeing anything like this in your life?

http://time.com/4900814/charlottesville-driver-accused-beating-mother/

Someone does some bad crime, and you see a video of their mother being told about it. I have certainly seen many other things happen when there is a horrific crime, but never anything like this. For example, when the Tsarnev brothers bombed the Boston Marathon, Biden downplayed the possibility of Islamic terrorism by calling them “knock off jihadis”. Narrative based news media is so eager to make sure the narrative goes with the news that they tend to downplay the role of the news in the narrative. More often than not, these people are so eager to associate a crime with racism or sexism that they don’t bother finding out what actually happened, or why.

Try as I might, I can’t recall anything like it. Notice that she said that he used the term “Alt-Right”. People on the right don’t refer to themselves as “Alt-Right”. I don’t know any Nazis personally, but I doubt they do as well, especially since a Nazi is a “National Socialist”, and you can’t be “Socialist” if you’re on the right.

Next is the lack of video. I have seen the same clips that everyone has seen, but at an event like that, in this day and age, there should have been a lot more video. I would also expect more/better video of the aftermath. So far, I haven’t even seen any additional video of him making his escape. I did notice something interesting about the video of his escape. Look at the picture that I included with this article. That girl actually stopped to videotape herself smiling into the camera saying “Fuck!” after the car hit, and before it backed out. I still haven’t seen her video of the incident.
I also haven’t seen any video or images of him holding up the Nazi flag, wearing a KKK costume, or even giving a Nazi salute. If they were out there, I would expect to see them everywhere by now.

Last but not least, I HAVE seen reports and articles of Antifa people being bussed in and travelling from out of state to attend the event, but I have not seen any of the same in regards to Nazis or KKK members.

If you’re one of the five people reading this (Thanks mom), and you DO come across any of the things that I missed, please feel free to enlighten me. I would rather be corrected than be wrong.

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