Obviously it isn't.
No. It really is.
A white supremacist neo-nazi murdered an innocent woman and attempted to murder several others by driving a car into a crowd. It's pretty easy to unequivocally denounce a terrorist murderer without pointing fingers at the victims at all. Bringing up ANTIFA or any other nonsense is meant to equivocate and justify his actions. Absolutely nothing else. It is literally used to diminish the gravity of what had happened. It also changes the conversation from denouncing an appalling murder to whining about liberals.
Look, you keep saying how abhorrent neo-nazis are and that there's no justification for their action. That
entire rally was about white supremacy and those who weren't white supremacists stayed there and supported people chanting Nazi slogans and death to the Jews. What would you do if you went to a rally that you thought was about preserving historical monuments only to find yourself surrounded by a crowd full of hate-mongers? A normal, reasonable, and rational person would leave. That's not a crowd you want to be associated with or supporting. So that ENTIRE side were shitbags. Full stop.
On the left, you had professors, students, citizens, denouncing hate-mongering and white supremacy. That's what the vast majority of that crowd was. Were there radicals there. Absolutely. ANTIFA is a radical group, organized to fight white supremacy. But that was not the entire crowd on the other side. Not even close. That's not who was murdered by that maniac. That's not who those 19 others were that were seriously injured by him either. These were innocent civilians.
Seriously. Denouncing what had happened is a total softball. There is absolutely no room to play politics and during a time of crisis, during a
literal radical rightwing terrorist attack, to turn around and start attacking the left and saying there's violence on "all sides" as if there is ANY comparison here. There is none. Nobody on the left opened fire on the crowd of white supremacists. Nobody on the left tried to drive a car into the crowd or murder anyone there. None.
In short, there is a time and a place to denounce the radicalism of ANTIFA. That absolutely has it's place and would be necessary if they drove a car into a crowd of white supremacists. Doing it when you're on national television supposedly consoling the nation after a white supremacist tried to murder a couple dozen people.....there's nothing else to call that than
**** stupid. That's seriously not the time for mental
**** about tallying up the sins of both sides to see which is worse.
(Besides, even if you did that, it's not even damn near close which radicals have shed more blood. Timothy McVeigh, Anders Breivik, etc., have spilled FAR more blood than any radical leftwing group that wasn't some authoritarian despot government ever has. There's a reason the intelligence agencies have said rightwing radical lone wolves are the single biggest terrorist threat to America. It's not leftwing radicals blowing up government buildings, building up militias, shooting up or burning down black churches, or driving cars into crowds of protesters. It wasn't leftwing protesters throwing black babies to alligators, dragging black men from their homes and hanging them from trees, or dragging black people from the bumpers of pickup trucks.)
Have some damn perspective, man.