Charlottesville and the University of Virginia were also, by 2017, among the American bastions of left-wing progressive liberal activist opposition to racism, sexism, xenophobia, and homophobia. Charlottesville and the University of Virginia were claiming a seat next to other famous American campuses, like the University of California at Berkeley, or Yale, as ardently active beacons of the rights of the oppressed and dispossessed. The mayor of Charlottesville declared the city the capital of the progressive resistance. It stood for the rights of people of color, religious minorities, gay,
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