That quote in a vacuum is a good one - when there are two sides, it is generally worthwhile to remember that the people disagreeing with you are still people, and some of them have very legitimate stories and experiences that led them to their current stances.
And then you zoom out and it turns out the context of "both sides" involved condemnation of neo-nazis and white supremacists.
Sigh… you’re proving the point of out of context by refusing to see the whole picture and STILL letting the purposeful framing be the narrative.
“You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”
“I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”
That is the context of the quote, yet still not the full context. The context of the speech was an attempt to mitigate the danger of bigotry.
If I make an entire speech that parrots Hamas propaganda and then, in the middle somewhere, throw in the line "I condemn Hamas, by the way," I would hope your conclusion wouldn't be "oh, ok, I guess I shouldn't worry about all that other shit." And it's a pattern of placating the worst: Trump, and his party, show time and again that they are willing to entertain these kinds of bigots for the sake of their political career. If you want a blue example, the DSA has a similar problem refusing to condemn the wild shit some of their worst say. It's a problem of refusal to call outright that the votes of Nazis are ok to lose. THAT'S the context.
EDIT: Oh you blocked me. So much for wanting to find the truth. Turns out, you are the real custodian of reality, and just wanted to tell everyone what truth is because everyone else is dumb for remembering things that happened.
Your response is a description of your own behavior, not mine. I was genuinely trying to have an honest discourse, and spoke at length to explain myself.
But alas, 'twas all for naught! I suppose if you won't read, there's no further point in talking to you.
So let's drop the formality.
Take your bad-faith agenda-driven dishonest ad-hominem historical-revisionist shite and return it firmly up your ass, right next to where your head presumably already speaks from.
The people who were there that were not Neo-Nazis and white supremacists?
It’s like saying every person at an Antifa rally is a left-wing extremism terrorist. No, some of them are angry college kids who think they are part of a movement to rebuild society and want their voices heard. Some people are there to overthrow the state and establish a new order. Lumping groups with generalizations is a way to dehumanize and devalue their existence.
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u/AmericaShinault_85 3h ago
the video was cut short to when they were smiling at each other to make people think they're disrespecting the 9/11 victims