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 collegeā€™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 Rittenhouseā€™s presence.

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

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

  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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    Iā€™ll answer it by pointing out that youā€™re building a straw man. I would call you a goat fellating syphilis factory but Iā€™m pretty sure that both goats and syphilis would hate to be inside you.

    There is a clear difference between putting yourself in a situation by crossing state lines over some shit that has nothing to do with you and having to live with an abuser. She has to go home to a person. He could have stayed his ass home knowing what was happening and would have been just fucking fine. He was looking to kill, sheā€™s trying to live. If sheā€™s making a living on it, itā€™s making a living on surviving, not going to look for trouble. But you canā€™t see that, you slimy donkey fucking inbred.

    I get that people like you argue in bad faith. I really donā€™t care and this response isnā€™t for you. In fact Iā€™m blocking you after I make this because I have no interest in listening to a sniveling shit pile try to lawyer his way into making crossing state lines hoping to kill someone ok. Iā€™m writing this so anyone confused about what kind of person you are can read and see that youā€™re looking to find a way to kill.

    Go fuck yourself instead of forcing yourself on your sister-cousin again. I hope that last brain cell youā€™re clinging to falls out and knocks out that last tooth thatā€™s holding on by a thread on its way out.

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      9 months ago

      I love how you claim you are going to answer the question, and then simply insult me while not answering the questionā€¦ And the telling me youā€™re blocking me.

      Youā€™re doing me a favor. Thanks.

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          I feel bad for people who think that popularity is the same as correctness. You are basically doing the equivalent of ā€œwow, this influencer has a lots of followers. They canā€™t be wrong!ā€ Lol

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            9 months ago

            you say this like youā€™re not the one doing mental gymnastics to justify your fucked up position.

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              9 months ago

              Whether Iā€™m wrong has zero bearing on whatā€™s popular not being equivalent to being right.

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                    9 months ago

                    plenty of others already did, which you are conveniently ignoring. your analogy is garbage and reveals how poorly conceived and deluded your position is. as such, you arenā€™t worth anyoneā€™s effort.