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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    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?

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          My mistake - Iā€™ll return to the question you havenā€™t answered.

          Do you consistently defend people that are clearly unqualified and incapable of doing their job as they fail woefully, or is this an edge case for you? I suppose that unlike most, the likes of Rittenhouse and Kirk arenā€™t doing anything of value - itā€™s not as though theyā€™re performing surgery, driving a bus, or flipping burgers.

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            Do you consistently defend people that are clearly unqualified and incapable of doing their job as they fail woefully, or is this an edge case for you?

            Iā€™ll repeat what I said, I empathize with people. They are not just their utility. He is not famous for his speaking skills, but TPUSA are clearly trying to capitalize on them, whatever not my problem. Anyone who paid to see him knew what they were getting

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              I empathize with people. (ā€¦) Anyone who paid to see him knew what they were getting.

              Youā€™re empathising with the same thing the audience went to see - the extreme rightā€™s posterchild for killing your political opponents. The analysis is super-straightforward and backed by studies - this is simply ignorant hate, fear, and disgust stoked by the likes of TPUSA. The fact that you canā€™t progress to synthesising straightforward conclusions is a massive red flag.

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                  Youā€™re very empathetic - thatā€™s entirely unremarkable. One can empathise with Hitler - but only a mentally deficient or monstrous person would stop at empathy and be incapable of synthesising conclusions like he was a bad guy that did bad things. Itā€™s like reading without comprehending.

                  Why canā€™t you advance past the insistence you empathise with Rittenhouse toward an opinion? Are you deficient or dodging?

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                    What is there to have an opinion on? Heā€™s socially awkward? I said that. What more is there to draw from this? Also remember insults and uncivil behavior are not allowed