Poor Tom

The alt-right feels an especial affection for Charlottesville, Virginia, and will be assembling there this weekend to spew its racist, nutjob ideology.

After a series of raw-throated public confrontations earlier this year, Charlottesville is bracing for an influx of white nationalists from across the country to Saturday’s “Unite the Right” rally.

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The location for the rally, Emancipation Park, is no accident. Until February, the 45,435-square-foot green space was originally known as Robert E. Lee Park. When renaming the public park, the Charlottesville City Council also voted to remove the statue of the Confederate general, but it remains in place because of a court injunction that halted its removal, The Washington Post has reported. Another hearing on the matter is slated for later this month.

In recent years the park has become a hot spot for controversy.

The irony is that Charlottesville was the home of Thomas Jefferson, and the University of Virginia was founded by Jefferson to serve as the center of an “academical village.” So, naturally, it has become a magnet for deeply un-American sentiments. This makes sense only when you understand that the alt-Right is animated by malice, by a need to soil what they can’t understand or participate in, by hatred for a world that has left their smug, self-satisfied ignorance behind.

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