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.

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    Rittenhouse isnā€™t some random dipshit that got cornered (ironically, a favourite of the likes of Crowder and Shapiro until they realised even students embarrass them) - heā€™s the Daily Wireā€™s spokesperson for crossing state lines to manufacture a situation to murder your political opponents. He chose to speak in front of that crowd, chose to field questions, and chose to run (presumably because he didnā€™t have a gun to kill those he disagrees with).

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      Yeah what your saying is he is not famous for his speaking skills, which are normal person levels. So I donā€™t see why this is surprising

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            Do you consistently defend people that you admit are unqualified for their job and incapable of doing it - even when itā€™s as essential as bragging about crossing state lines to procure a gun and manufacture a flimsy legal pretext to kill your political opponents, or is this an outlier for you?

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                Everyone does that - unlike you, most people are also capable of progressing to conclusions from straightforward situations or answering simple questions.

                This has strong neo-Nazi-style ā€œjust asking questionsā€ energy. If youā€™re capable of drawing conclusions, own them. If youā€™re not, youā€™ve got nothing to contribute here.

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                  from straightforward situations or answering simple questions.

                  Do you mean baseless assumptions?

                  This has strong neo-Nazi-style ā€œjust asking questionsā€ energy. If youā€™re capable of drawing conclusions, own them.

                  This is your reaction to me saying itā€™s not surprising that a young adult is awkward and doesnā€™t handle unexpected confrontation well.

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                    Edit: Most of this is way off topic in response to an entirely different dipshit.


                    Do you mean baseless assumptions?

                    No - I mean obvious conclusions - you know, like seeing HD footage of the IDF drone striking obvious unarmed civilians and concluding theyā€™re drone striking obvious unarmed civilians. Never mind the rhetoric of their government or the IDF, or the track record of either. Baseless is pretending itā€™s plausible theyā€™re Hamas.

                    This is your reaction to me saying itā€™s not surprising that a young adult is awkward and doesnā€™t handle unexpected confrontation well.

                    Nope - this is in response to you seeing clear, entirely unambiguous evidence of warcrimes and saying we canā€™t possibly know whatā€™s happening. I know how old I am, and some genocide denying dipshit telling me otherwise isnā€™t going to change that.

                    Just to drive the point home, Iā€™ll ask the question we know you canā€™t answer one final time - whereā€™s your evidence these civilians are Hamas?