"Charlie Kirk has said a lot of racist things," said a student addressing Rittenhouse from the audience.
"What racist things has Charlie Kirk said?" Rittenhouse challenged. "We're gonna have a little bit of a dialogue of what racist things that Charlie Kirk said."
The student responded of Kirk: "He says that we shouldn't celebrate Juneteenth, we shouldn't celebrate Martin Luther King day—we should be working those days—he called Ketanji Brown Jackson an affirmative action hire, he said all this nonsense about George Floyd, and he said he'd be scared if a Black pilot was on a plane. Does that not seem racist?"
"I don't know anything about that," Rittenhouse said from the stage, prompting jeers among the audience.
"Does that seem racist is a yes or no question, Kyle," yelled one attendee.
"Well, after all the things I just told you, would you consider that hate speech," the student asked Rittenhouse, who had a dog with him onstage.
"I'm not gonna comment on that," Rittenhouse said, sparking more noise from the crowd.
Seconds later, Rittenhouse abruptly exited the stage to cheers from the crowd. The attendees were then promptly ordered to depart the venue.
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They fly him around the country, but the media outfit he's working for didn't bother to invest in media training for their homicidal poster boy?
So much for standing your ground.
Fuck yeah, make that piece of shit feel bad. Pure uncut Colombian schadenfreude.
“I don’t know anything about that,”
This seems to be the canned response to all "uncomfortable" topics.
It seems that right-wing "debates" are not about arguing a point or another, but bringing up the "right" talking points, and backing out the wrong ones.
"We're gonna have a little bit of a dialogue of what racist things that Charlie Kirk said."
"I don't know anything about that,"
Not much of a dialogue lol
You're telling me that the guy who showed up to counter protest with a gun, who provoked protestors while holding a gun, is actually a coward who's too afraid to comment on the racist remarks of his shitty friend.
Who'da'thunk'it
Chickenshit without a gun
Yea, I bet he wished he could have illegally crossed state lines with a firearm he wasn't legally allowed to have again to protect himself from these organized students
Even if you don't think it was murder, it's repulsive that he is trying to make a career out of killing two people.
I don't think he gets many other job offers
Racist murderer? Does that not sound like American cop material to you?
Maybe I'm missing something as I'm not from the states. Why the hell is a guy who is famous for murder invites to talk at a university?
Rittenhouse was invited to speak at Wednesday's event by the university's Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter. Founded in 2012, the non-profit promotes conservative politics at schools and college campuses.
It's insane that the only reason he was noticed and brought into their political organization was through ~~murder~~ shooting and killing people.
That's how gangs initiate people.
Edit: removed "murder" so nobody whines about whether he lawfully drove to another state with a gun and shot people.
for the express purpose of intimidating people and hopefully getting the opportunity to shoot them in 'self defense'
while he was too young to lawfully be able to purchase the gun that he used
Our gun culture is so nuts that it normalizes shit like this.
When you look at it this way, it is utterly unsurprising that we have so many mass shootings.
This isn't normalisation, it's celebration.
I'm not going to be coy about why they're celebrating him either: The pro-gun community spends hour after hour theorycrafting about how they can shoot people with their cool guns and get away with it. Kyle is being celebrated for finding a new "get out of jail free" technique that specifically targeted undesirables for murder.
That's all there is to it. They shower him with fame and money because he killed BLM protesters with America's favourite gun. It's his reward.
He got away with it so he's automatically a power fantasy for Cons.
Don't forget that he murdered people at a BLM protest, so Cons also think he's a hero.
Because he's useful to the Republicans, our extreme-right Party.
It's because the US right will celebrate literally any action that they perceive as working against what they think everyone left of them supports or enjoys. Kyle was a clean cut looking young white man who heroically skirted the edge of laws regarding firearm purchases and visited a town that was not his own where he made sure to keep looking until he find a situation that required him to use his gun. The context was protests fueled by the death of George Floyd and shooting of Jacob Blake at the hands of police.
There were probably folks who literally touched themselves after hearing a red blooded, AR wielding young white man was able to be acquitted of murder after shooting protesters at a BLM protest. On top of that, one of the men had some form of pedophilia in his past, boosting their drumbeat of messaging claiming that folks who support LGBTQ+, and by extension all democrats and leftists, are groomers out to molest kids.
It was a perfect storm of trump supporter daydreams all centered around Kyle Rittenhouse. Folks who buy into all or most of that view are big fans.
Why the fuck is this person on a stage to begin with?
"Everyone, Kyle Rittenhouse is here to tell us about indiscriminately provoking people and killing them. Round of applause, please."
Confronting Kyle Rittenhouse? Be careful, no sudden movements. We wouldn't want him to feel threatened, now would we?
I would also like to point out after Rittenhouse had murdered two people, he was photographed flashing a white power symbol wearing a "free as fuck" t-shirt with the Proud Boys.
There isn't a doubt in my mind he went to that protest to murder.
"I think it's funny how everyone's saying I got booted off stage, when in reality, we just did a hard cutoff time and just happened to leave at that time.."
Lmfao solid save
“I think it’s funny how everyone’s saying I got booted off stage, when in reality, we just did a hard cutoff time and just happened to leave at that time…”
Press (X) to doubt
he was at the demonstration to "protect businesses and provide medical assistance."
Remember kids: you can take lives to protect property. You can not damage property to protect lives.
He was a fucking murderous snowflake then and he's still a pathetic fucking snowflake now.
mods removed my comment for saying this guy is a murderer, cause he killed people.
Apparently, that is equivalent to hate speech.
Last I checked taking a gun to a place specifically to kill someone is murder, yup, even if our jurors decided they are not criminally liable , still a murderer, just not convicted.
Rittenhouse is a murderer!
I still cant' get past his forced cry at his trail, with the little side eye peek to see if they were watching.
Pissbaby Kyle much prefers it when he can shoot the people he provokes, but when he has to use his words he proves once again he's nothing but a pissbaby snowflake, melting under scrutiny.
Cafeful, this is a guy famous for killing when feeling threatened by unarmed people.
I almost feel sorry for how this kid is going to be forever type-cast as a stupid gun-nut culture warrior type. Before his brain has even fully developed. What a disaster. What he did was gawdawful but it's likely he will NEVER learn from his mistake and become a whole human being. Not when being a total dumbass for the RW elitists willing to fund such things pays a lot better than the alternative, I bet.
And when people talk about how what he did was in "self defense"....I always ask, what fuck was he even doing there in the first place? He had zero reason to be there.
this dude bought a gun illegally (wasnt charged because of a loop hole) recklessly endangered numerous people. His parents fucking allowed this shit
AND he has the audacity to be a political figure? Fuck this guy, seriously.