a heritage that includes persecution to truly understand that. And for the record, I personally come more from the ignore the wackos camp. That's what I've personally done as a general rule when faced by something remotely like that.

But I am not about to tell a black person how he should react. I am Jewish, and I know quite a few who in good conscience could not ignore Friday's march and its 1930s nazi symbolism. And so that logic can easily extend to anyone who has strong feelings about this - to someone like Heather Heyer who may have had nothing more in mind except making clear that her town does not accept racism.

With anything there's always armchair QBing. Sure, this would have been a non-event if all of Cville just ignored it. No chance that in the face of the largest white supremacist gathering in the US in anyone's memory, Cville wouldn't have been characterized as tolerant or even welcoming of these evil viewpoints, because all these eager armchair QBs have been to an alternate universe and saw exactly what happened.

I think people are entitled to their opinions. I don't like (my perception anyway) of the way many are using this critique of the counter-protest as a way to advance a moral equivalence between the two sides. For some, I think it is a path to defend the indefensible in Trump.

No strong critique from me for people who are inclined to say in no uncertain terms "not in my house" to racists.

Very strong critique from me over this out of control emotional charge to white wash all of history and its nuances. That plays into the hands of the racists, and is a massive political windfall for Trump.