After several attempts I have the video shot. I decided to keep it simple. I'm personally of the view (and even though I'm Canadian, remember I live a single mile away from Detroit, Michigan and have been inundated with US media all my life, US politics and all that) that the First Amendment rights off all need to be voraciously defended, regardless of how morally repugnant that speech may be.
The reasoning behind that is that free speech either applies to all or none, and supressing that speech, especially with violence is also morally repugnant.
It's amazing how complicated that this can be to some people that I've had to discuss this with, it does the world no good to repay evil with evil, it only increases the amount of evil, but, in a society with open discussion, usually stupid fringe ideas end up being exposed as such, when speech is supressed, it allows for a vocal minority to stand further up on soap boxes than others.
As a Canadian, these are rights that I can only sit nearby and be extremely envious of, we don't, nor have we ever had the level of freedom that the US has, and we do have it good up here.
I would never argue that white supremacy is a good thing...these groups are disgusting, and I harbour personal wishes that they could be wiped off the planet, but who are we going to trust to decide what is and what is not good...there can be no agreement, one side can say God, but another side will vehemently disagree. One side can say one or another political ideology, but we still will never come to a full agreement without force.
Ideally, Charlottesville should have been two angry mobs yelling at each other. And that would have been perfectly fine. Couple that with the fact that the police actively pushed one radical group into and through a crowd of another radical group, and then noped the hell out to allow them fend for themselves was also an egregious act by agents of the state.
Now, in the name of full disclosure, if anyone asked me what my political alignment was, I'd have to say center, with conservative/right leanings. That said, I would never pledge allegiance to a political party or any political dogma. My opinions on things have had to change at times, as I am always taking in new information, or facts of the world, that challenge my ways of thinking. If someone in the Communist party says something that makes absolute perfect sense, I can't just disagree with it because...Communist party, hell, there's even the odd occaision where Alex Jones spits out a nugget of truth that needs to be acknowledged...usually right before receding back to his "jews control everything" nonsense.
I'm a ardent supporter of human rights, even rights that I personally don't legally have, and when I look at Charlottesville, unlike a lot of foreigners who just refuse to look at things from the US and a consitutional point of view, I try and take the effort to see how it should be not according to Canadian culture and law, but according to US law.
It's been very hard to actually get my points across, since I usually ad-lib a lot, properly, while trying not to kill myself on my red rocket
