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The fallacy here is that it’s impossible to be a good person on any level if you are a racist, which completely untrue.
The “good people” on the pro confederate side all support a racist cause, which they should have realized sometime before they started marching with Nazis.
The “good people” on the pro confederate side all support a racist cause, which they should have realized sometime before they started marching with Nazis.
This is what people seem deliberately unwilling to grasp: the problem with “very fine people on both sides” isn’t that none of the people who marched with the Nazis that day can’t be “very fine” in many/most contexts, or good, or generous or kind.
The problem is this: so what.
The problem is this: so what.
In the context of the Nazi occupation of Charlottesville, they marched with the Nazis. What else matters?
You take care of your kids? Congrats.
You give to charity? Good for you.
You’re nice to strangers? Hooray.
And so what? People who don’t march with Nazis manage that, too
You take care of your kids? Congrats.
You give to charity? Good for you.
You’re nice to strangers? Hooray.
And so what? People who don’t march with Nazis manage that, too
There are always “very fine people” on any side
What goodness is there doesn’t make it better
The goodness can mask great darkness
Goodness in service of...what?
What a side marches for, and what they chant, and what they intend— The spirit that motivates them—matters more.
What goodness is there doesn’t make it better
The goodness can mask great darkness
Goodness in service of...what?
What a side marches for, and what they chant, and what they intend— The spirit that motivates them—matters more.
What matters about these people isn’t that they were kind to friends and family, though most of them are very likely were.
What matters is what they joined, feet and hands and voice and mind.
They had their reasons. The reasons don’t matter, either.
What matters is what they joined, feet and hands and voice and mind.
They had their reasons. The reasons don’t matter, either.
When the president said “very fine people on both sides,” it was offensive precisely because it was true—and irrelevant.
What he was saying was, both sides are equal because both can be situationally nice.
He was saying marching with Nazis is an irrelevant detail.
It’s not.
What he was saying was, both sides are equal because both can be situationally nice.
He was saying marching with Nazis is an irrelevant detail.
It’s not.
So what, David Mangels.
So what, Bo Dexter.
So what, Sue B, so what.
I listened, Patrick Kiser, to all of it, and so what. So what to your excuses, so what.
He denounced them after he normalized them, he used “goodness “to cover them, he’s the president and he normalized Nazis, he was able to do it precisely *because* those other “very fine” people were there, so to hell with all of them. They’re good? So what?
So what, Douglas?
So what, Douglas?
