> > What's happening in North Carolina? What is the point of the white
> > supremacists there? Are they angry about something? What has led them
up to
> > the point where they feel the need to openly express their hatred in
public?
> > And the one who killed that lady with his car - Why was his racism more
> > important to him than other people's lives, or even his own freedom? That
> > stuff I don't get.
 
> That was in Virginia.
 
> Thing is by showing up to counter-protest these cretins, you are only
> adding credibility to their cause.  I can remember back when I was younger
> people (and the press) all pretty much ignored the KKK and other groups
> when they were protesting.  Ignoring them seemed to drive them back under
> the rocks they crawled out from under and it got to the point where you
> hardly ever heard about them anymore, unless it was a new story about how
> their numbers were dwindling.
 
> Now, people counter-protest everything and then wonder why things get
> violent?

Sad, but true. The Nazis and the Maoists need each other. They feed off
of each other, and off of the resulting publicity. Both extremes picked
up their riot gear and weapons and went there wanting violence and
publicity, and both extremes are probably getting a boost in money and
members as a result. A lot of people in the middle, including the "useful
idiots" who were fooled by the extremists into thinking that they were
doing a noble thing, got hurt.