one of the rhetorically understandable but unfortunate impulses is always to use a city as a shorthand for whatever tragic event happened there (or a comparable event in another city) and i do hope one day we can eventually retire or transcend that sort of nomenclature. certainly, i don’t think it’s fair to use charlottesville in this manner, given how many people in the community came out to oppose the fascists that day and how many of the fascists themselves were not from charlottesville or even virginia, so i’m glad the city is trying to define itself on its own terms.
Already 5 years… Time flies.
Yeah it’s so sad for a city to be remembered as a meeting point of facists and a deadly event. I’m a foreigner and the name only rings this bell. I should focus more on the resistance that happened there.