Path: ...!feed.opticnetworks.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Snopes Finally Debunks Left-Wing Claim of "Very Fine People" in Charlottesville Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 19:39:52 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:39:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7e3a4341db47a8ace7210b41caaf3d94"; logging-data="3663085"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19k+Dk3QTlo3ktI3+OTD0qJFgfM0aYdNGc=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:OMRGQf8gCeSjjNwUf3aiW4pi/fI= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2166 BTR1701 wrote: >It's seven years after the fact and the damage has long since been done, but >the left-wing fact checkers at Snopes have finally come out and admitted the >whole claim that Trump called neo-Nazis "very fine people" was a hoax. I have >no idea why, but credit where it's due, I suppose? >https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/ Eh It's another example of the more Trump talked, the more he buried himself. There was no way for him to win. He should have ignored it, or limited his comments to condemning the murder. I don't put the "let's go beat up Nazis" counterprotestors on a high moral plane. As far as I could tell, the protestors on both sides had pretty low morals. I've personally objected to the removal of Civil War monuments making the generals god-like, but MY reason is rather different than the neo-Nazis: I don't think the modern generation should be re-writing history. A past generation erected those monuments and we need to look the ugliness of American history square in the face so we never forget that Civil War generals were honored by certain Americans for the modern politics of that era. I despite prettying up history. Trump was still wrong.