Comment Re:Follow the money (Score 1) 549
Alternatively, if protesters hadn't protested against the KKK and Nazis, the KKK and Nazis would have been emboldened and run bigger marches next time round.
The Charlottesville rally was already set up to be the biggest white supremacist gathering in recent history, described by one of the organizers as "the biggest rally event we've had this millennium", pulling in members from the KKK, the proud boys, neo-Confederates, neo-nazis, and just about every other white supremacy group in the nation.
Still with all this coordination and bluster the event planner requested a permit for at most 400 people. Now that may seem like a lot but these people were coming from all over the country, hell that murderer that drove into the crowd was from Ohio. The white supremacy movement, with months of coordination and planning, could only gather less than 400 people for one of their hate rallys. There are high school graduating classes with more people than that. With the events in Charlottesville and the media's endless reporting before and after it may seem like these groups are very large and a profound influence on society, but the truth is that these people are a very very small minority of the population and most people do not believe like they do. The KKK and Nazi's may become as emboldened as they want, I do not see them ever fielding marches that exceed the size of a high school football stadium. Because no one wants to join them.