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Charlottesville and Airbnb are wrong to attack white supremacist free speech

By Tom Rogan

Published August 9, 2017 2:20pm ET

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Charlottesville and Airbnb are wrong to attack white supremacist free speech — Airbnb said that the "Airbnb Community Commitment" requires users to "accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age." Airbnb claims that the white nationalists are in breach of the commitment. (Flickr)

Free speech is once again under attack in America. This time, the victims are not terribly sympathetic.

Under the banner of “unite the right”, various white nationalist/neo-nazi groups will gather on Saturday in Charlottesville, Va. There they will protest against the planned removal of a statue of Confederate general in chief, Robert E. Lee, from Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park.

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