This past weekend, a Unite the Right rally led by white supremacists sparked deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

But in the aftermath of the protest, many conservative or right-leaning outlets and pundits have tiptoed around or outright denied the role of white supremacy at the rally, which was attended by neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, white nationalist organizations and members of the so-called alt-right.

We want to clear up some of their versions of the events in Charlottesville.

White supremacists are to blame for white supremacy not identity politics.

White supremacist groups whose various ideologies assert that whites should have dominance over people of other races, that races should be physically separated and that countries or regions should be defined by a white racial identity, among other nakedly racist ideas came to Charlottesville ready for a fight. They openly carried long guns, dressed in militia uniforms, chanted the Nazi phrase Blood and soil! and admitted to surrounding counterprotesters at a Thomas Jefferson statue, lit torches in hand.