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  • 2017-08-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Are Vigilante Protesters Digging Up Confederate Graves After Charlottesville Clashes? (en)
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  • Days after a violent white supremacist-organized rally in Charlottesville, Virginia left three people dead, several blogs published articles claiming that leftist protesters had carried on their demonstrations and begun digging up the graves of Confederates: The most popular version of this appeared to originate from a site called Steadfast and Loyal (although it was originally published by the tabloid Daily Mail): A 17 August 2017 iteration published by Liberty Writers was titled Protestors Just Tried To Dig Up Confederate General’s Grave, Then Got Hit With ULTIMATE KARMA. Chicks on the Right lamented that apparently digging up dead bodies isn’t too far for these people, because it’s happening, citing Daily Wire. On that date, Daily Wire's John Nolte reported: Nolte cited Daily Mail, but that article was clearly dated July 2015 (the site later corrected the error, but not before numerous other blogs picked the claim up). The original report from which Daily Mail and all others borrowed their coverage bore a less-alarming title: Group takes a shovel to Confederate General’s grave: These stories, then, are false on two levels. First, 17 August 2017 articles claiming protesters just started digging up Confederate graves were about two years late to that particular party. Second, the sensationalistic Daily Mail coverage regurgitated a local news story reporting that protesters dug up a patch of grass in Memphis. No one was digging up Confederate graves either in July 2015 or August 2017. (en)
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