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by myko 2218 days ago
False equivalence - the blood and soil folks were marching and chanting explicit nazi phrases and pushing nazi ideas, there were no "good people" in that crowd - the point of the march was to push that agenda.

You're referring, I think, to the folks in the Women's March who joined the march but had a past of making anti-semitic comments. Those people did not show themselves to be anti-semites during the march, so the folks marching with them would not have known to disengage or call them out at the time (though they were widely called out afterwards, if you care to look into it). Contrast this with the folks trump called good people - the entire point of that march was to push nazi rhetoric, and the folks who joined them knew that, even if they don't self identify as nazis.

See the difference?