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Victim in Virginia melee wept for social justice, her boss says
Reuters ^ | 08/13/17 | Bernie Woodall

Posted on 08/13/2017 5:48:05 PM PDT by Robwin

Heather Heyer came to downtown Charlottesville with her friends to make a stand against white nationalists who converged on the Virginia college town to demand the city keep a statue honoring a Confederate war hero, her boss said on Sunday.

The 32-year-old paralegal wanted to send a clear message to the neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan sympathizers who planned to stage one of the largest far-right rallies in recent U.S. history that people abhor their views in the city where she was born, he said.

But her decision to join counter-protesters on Saturday resulted in tragedy when a 20-year-old Ohio man drove his car at high speed into a line of marchers, killing Heyer and injuring at least 19 others.

A strong sense of social justice was a constant theme in Heyer's personal and working life, said Alfred Wilson, bankruptcy division manager at the Miller Law Group.

"There have been times that I've walked back to her office and she had tears in her eyes" for various injustices she saw in the world, said Wilson, such as the time she was weeping after reading anti-Muslim comments online, Wilson said.

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Heyer was a supporter of Bernie Sanders, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination won by Hillary Clinton, Wilson said.

As a white woman, she thought it unfair that she enjoyed liberties that Wilson, as a black man, did not, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; heatherheyer; sjw
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

LOL. I’d like to see the Antifa come into this county when they are on their “purge” of whites. Those kiddies don’t have a clue of what they are up against. Like the commerical says “roaches check in but they don’t check out”. Once they leave their urban termite hives, they are out of their realm.


61 posted on 08/13/2017 6:22:15 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Racists are color blind.

Facepalm.


62 posted on 08/13/2017 6:22:56 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: raiderboy

OK, now there’s two vehicle incidents?


63 posted on 08/13/2017 6:23:58 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Tyranny can hide within decorum.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Looks in fact like my “Rednecks built America” (subtext: rednecks come in many colors) is the anti-Antifa.


64 posted on 08/13/2017 6:28:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Robwin

Well, if it’s any consolation she will still be voting democrat forever anyway.


65 posted on 08/13/2017 6:28:42 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump!)
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To: broken_clock

Grooooooooooan!


66 posted on 08/13/2017 6:30:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: combat_boots
OK, I’ll bite. What is a Heeb?

Derogatory term for Jewish people. From the word, Hebrew.

67 posted on 08/13/2017 6:31:12 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Robwin

A delicate flower too pure for this rotted world. Sniff.


68 posted on 08/13/2017 6:39:36 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: combat_boots

Where do you people get this crap?


69 posted on 08/13/2017 6:39:42 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Robwin
"There have been times that I've walked back to her office and she had tears in her eyes" for various injustices she saw in the world, said Wilson, such as the time she was weeping after reading anti-Muslim comments online, Wilson said.

Looks like we got ourselves another Rachel Corrie. Well, peace be upon her. May she get 72 cats in the afterlife.

70 posted on 08/13/2017 6:40:29 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Robwin

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Deeply misguided soul.


71 posted on 08/13/2017 6:40:34 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Socon-Econ

Thank you .


72 posted on 08/13/2017 6:41:24 PM PDT by katykelly
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To: rockrr

“You people”

Really?

Actually, I heard it discussed on Beck with David Barton, back in the days I watched Beck (some years ago now). It stuck with me because of Lincoln’s phrase, “I had to destroy the Republic to save it.” That sentence has always unnerved me.


73 posted on 08/13/2017 6:44:36 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: raiderboy

“A strong sense of social justice was a constant theme in Heyer’s personal and working life, “

I have a strong sense of “social justice” too. Like a speeding car up a narrow street filled with democrat scum.


74 posted on 08/13/2017 6:45:37 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: A_perfect_lady

Like she wouldn’t weep about all the people that Islam has crushed? We’ve got better jobs for weepers than what she was weeping about.


75 posted on 08/13/2017 6:46:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Bonemaker

One fool deserves another huh?


76 posted on 08/13/2017 6:47:10 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: combat_boots

Ironically, both sides at the Battle of C-ville have a profound dislike for police and persons of the Jewish persuasion.


77 posted on 08/13/2017 6:47:32 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: combat_boots

It is chilling


78 posted on 08/13/2017 6:48:15 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The older I get the more I envy my mother’s 1950’s housewife existence...although she didn’t.

I doubt she had the same anxieties I’ve had by trying to “have it all.”


79 posted on 08/13/2017 6:49:17 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: combat_boots

It would unnerve me too - if he had ever uttered it.


80 posted on 08/13/2017 6:52:11 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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