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I agree that the justice system is racist. I am tired of Rittenhouse being used as race bait. Everyone involved in that story was white. Kyle, and all the peop
by dahfizz 5y ago
I agree that the justice system is racist.
I am tired of Rittenhouse being used as race bait. Everyone involved in that story was white. Kyle, and all the people that he shot / attacked him.
I don't even see how your point about Rittenhouse applies at all. There are plenty of examples of white people getting off easy, but you're instead nitpicking the legal defense of this one case.
You're instigating a fight more than making a salient point.
- woodruffw 5y agoYou’re omitting the part where the shooter went to a civil rights protest with a rifle. The fact that he happened to kill two white people rather than black ones isn’t an overriding consideration.
- dontcare007 5y agoThat's rich, trying to make exercising one right at a gathering of people exercising another right seem like a bad thing.
- millzlane 5y agoI think it's the fact that he went to that civil rights protest with a weapon and the idea of policing the protestors that was probably a bad thing. Most responsible gun owners would argue that he shouldn't have even been there with weapons. No one is attacking the exercising of one's right. They're pointing out the poor decision making of rittenhouse. It would be no different than showing up to a freedom rally/protest with weapons and the idea to police the area.
- fastball 5y agoIt was a riot.
- Spivak 5y agoLegal right or not, showing up to a protest with weapons is a show of force, intimidation, and in my view enough threat to life to justify self-defense in basically any case where the armed person does basically anything other than stand like a statue. Like we're not 6 years old, surely we're not so naive to believe "I'm not shoooting youuu. I'm not shooooting youuuu" is somehow peaceful.
- bavell 5y agoIt was a riot, not a protest. The kid was an idiot for bringing a firearm, just like the idiots in the mob who chased a kid with a firearm.
- Spivak 5y agoFine, sure. Nothing about my point changes though. Legal or not bringing a weapon to a riot...
- zionic 5y ago>Legal or not bringing a weapon to a riot... What's your point exactly? If more people had done so there wouldn't be a riot. Honestly it's a condemnation of our degraded society that so few show up to defend our cities and towns from this kind of mob violence.
- dahfizz 5y agoSure, you can make an argument the Kyle is racist. But that comes back to my point: this whole thread is just flame bait. There's no reason to smear Rittenhouse here. It does not connect to OPs point about inequality in the justice system.
- clucas 5y agoI'm sympathetic to BLM and I don't think Rittenhouse should have been there with a gun. But calling what was going on in Kenosha a "civil rights protest" makes you look foolish. It was rioting and looting. The kid did not go to some daytime march and shoot people carrying signs. He was LARPing as a security guard because people were torching businesses. Opinion is divided so much already... if you want to convince anyone to join your side who isn't already there, you have to have your facts straight and be honest about what happened.
- fallingknife 5y agoHe went to a riot with a rifle. I wouldn't go to a riot, but if I did I would sure as hell bring a rifle.
- Spooky23 5y agoIt doesn’t matter. The guy flipped to some sort of a cause célèbre, which transcends all fact.