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Saturday’s rally in Gettysburg showed pro Confederate activists increasingly agitated, armed, and itching for a fight even when there is no one to clash with them.
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But the central Pennsylvania chapter of Antifa told local newspaperslast week that it never intended to gather at Gettysburg.
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Lee was forceful in telling the crowd that the Confederacy and by extension, everyone gathered at the rally wasn’t racist. The Civil War, she said, wasn’t about slavery. (It was.)
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