"Nick Fuentes is the avatar of this movement. He was at Charlottesville, Virginia, at the Unite the Right rally where a parade of white racists marched with tiki torches and chanted ‘You will not replace us’ and ‘Jews will not replace us’ and where the anti-racist demonstrator Heather Heyer lost her life after a deranged white nationalist drove his car into a crowd."
I'm clearly not a defender of Nick, but this is always horse shit brought up by every journalist when they introduce their normie audience to him. They have to be precise with their wording, stating that he was "at" or "attended" Charlottesville, which is truthful, but their intent is clearly to confuse his mere presence with actual involvement and have the unaware reader draw this more malicious conclusion on their own, to avoid any legal culpability. This goes farther than guilt by association and by the same logic, the hammerhead quadroon Brittany Venti, who Nick attended with, can, and should be introduced with the same Charlottesville qualifier.
I hate to be factual here, but Nick wasn't even in Charlottesville for the tiki march. He showed up the day afterwards for the daytime rally and was an observer, along with thousands of other people, who were more or less there to check things out and not get involved with the idiots (on both sides). All those other atrocities he rambles off have nothing to do with Nick and it's entirely in bad faith for Theroux to not make this explicitly clear to his readers.
One a side note, I think we have to understand the significance of Charlottesville to Nick and how it shaped his life and relationships. I think he probably blames Spencer and the "wignats" for all the troubles Charlottesville brought him, as they were the ones who were ultimately responsible for what happened on the ground that day, but he probably fails to see that it was his own big mouth that tossed him into the spotlight by giving the statements he did to the media. I'm compelled to believe he didn't know the extent of the James Fields incident when he first went on the record, but he certainly didn't do himself any favors by continuing to be a bombastic pugilist. Ultimately, this incident led to him withdrawing from Boston University, where he basically had a full ride to.
Nick can say otherwise, but in earnest, I really do think he wishes he could have played his cards better and put himself in a position to affect real change out in the open, not being some weirdo pretend shadow broker of power from the America First Catboy Compound. Quite frankly, Nick wishes he was Charlie Kirk. He wishes AF was TPUSA. He wishes he could have Trump on speed dial. He wishes Tucker would have him on his show. He wishes boomers were handing him seven figure checks and he didn't have to read the same shitty super chats over and over and make the same shitty jokes about reading Pinheads and Patriots by Bill O'Reilly.
Charlie Kirk is everything Nick wishes he could be; a 6'5" Protestant Chad.
