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throwawaypathyesterday at 3:11 PM1 replyview on HN

>The problem with saying “good people on both sides” is that one side is literal nazis - the origianl quote is referencing a white supremist march in Charlottesville where marchers chanted “jews will not replace us”.

That was fake news, never happened. You've been duped by Russian and Iranian propaganda: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/


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kennywinkeryesterday at 3:27 PM

Your link that supposedly says it never happened seems to say that it happened pretty much exactly as i described.

> Trump did say there were "very fine people on both sides," referring to the protesters and the counterprotesters.

> He said in the same statement he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be "condemned totally."

If you are marching alongside nazis, at a march organized by neo-nazis, you’re a nazi. There are by definition no good people who march alongside nazis, so his (and your) attempt to differentiate falls flat.