Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk.

Rittenhouse was invited by the college’s Turning Point USA chapter to speak at the campus. However, the event was met with backlash from a number of students who objected to Rittenhouse’s presence.

The 21-year-old gained notoriety in August 2020 when, at the age of 17, he shot and killed two men—Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as injuring 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz—at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

He said the three shootings, carried out with a semi-automatic AR-15-style firearm, were in self-defense. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest where the shootings took place was held after Jacob Blake, a Black man, was left paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot by a white police officer.

  • Demosthememes
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    1 year ago

    Leave the kids alone, they have enough to deal with just trying to learn & not get shot by deranged, gun-toting nuts.
    Get a website if you want to promote politics.
    Politicians should be making sure school kids get teachers who are paid well & the kids have school lunches.

  • @[email protected]
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    271 year ago

    I honestly feel bad for this kid. His parents are clearly unhinged, which caused him to end up thinking he needed to defend businesses in another state from rioters, and the right using him as a tool of propaganda along with the expectations that come with that cannot be healthy for the mind.

    • @[email protected]
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      341 year ago

      I get what you’re saying. He was a kid and probably had a fucked up childhood that led to everything. It’s rare that people like that develop in a vacuum. But that’s an explanation of how he got here, not an excuse.

      Now he’s an adult. There are definitely people on the right using him, but he made the decision to let them. He could have easily slunk into the shadows and gone on with his life. Instead, he felt the court acquittal wasn’t enough and had to continue to prove he was right for his actions on the public stage. That’s his choice and his alone.

      He deserves the ridicule.

    • @[email protected]
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      321 year ago

      I get you on this. A lot of people really struggle to maintain empathy with people they may otherwise find despicable, but to me, increasing empathy in the world among and for literally everyone is a paramount goal. Take this example: A huge percentage of men who sexually assault children were sexually assaulted themselves as children. It’s easy to dehumanize someone in this situation, but the reality is they have been both a victimizer and a victim in their lives. People are way more complex than our present instant judgment-based society allows for.

      All that said, all Kyle Rittenhouse has to do is shut his ugly goddamn mouth if he wants to stop getting lambasted by the public.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      I’m sure a significant number of people in his life told him how to do the right thing and he choose racially based violence and murdered people.

      There is no reason to feel sorry for him. At best we understand how he got to be such a waste of oxygen and try to counter that.

    • Cethin
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      551 year ago

      He’s clearly making a decent living from this, all because he murdered someone and got away with it. I feel much worse about the family of the dead, or people working minimum wage trying to get by. I feel just about zero sympathy for this kid. Sure, maybe he was raised in a bad position, but it was his choice to do what he did. Do you see many other people raised in bad situations doing what he did? That’s on him, not his parents.

      • @[email protected]
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        231 year ago

        His parents encouraged this bullshit. He was a young person who deserved better guidance. I’m not suggesting that he should be free, just expressing my thoughts on what a tragedy it is.

    • @[email protected]
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      541 year ago

      Fuck off with that bullshit. He is a murderer who should be rotting in jail. Instead he is gifting off those murders and deserves every misfortune that comes his way.

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    961 year ago

    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.

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    61 year ago

    The protester groups were tipped off of when the new tickets would be made available, so they reserved nearly all of them so they could interrupt, sabotage, and eventually stage a walk out.

    So the protestors were going to stage a walkout, but Rittenhouse stayed on stage for the entire allotted time without them doing so. Also he only had 30min on stage but 2 hours afterwards to visit with supporters and answer their question.

    Yup, no holes in that story.

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    521 year ago

    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.

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    31 year ago

    He didnt really storm off the stage, and that critique would be simple to refute. The problem is that he is trying to use his famous to be a speaker, but he doesnt have that skill.

  • cum
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    411 year ago

    Aw and I had forgotten this murderer existed

  • DaBabyAteMaDingo
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    121 year ago

    The Rittenhouse case was a litmus test of sorts. It was justified self-defense both objectively and litigiously and you leftists still harp on this subject like the facts and statements weren’t publicly available 🤣

    It’s when I realized most of the liberals were just fake and didn’t really read anything other than Twitter, tik tok, or Instagram. I’m still a die hard Democrat with a heavy emphasis on social programs but y’all really need to get your head out your asses - before we start losing more people due to your virtue signaling bull crap 😂