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 collegeās Turning Point USA chapter to speak at the campus. However, the event was met with backlash from a number of students who objected to Rittenhouseās presence.
The 21-year-old gained notoriety in August 2020 when, at the age of 17, heĀ shot and killed two menāJoseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as injuring 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutzāat 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.
I would also like to point out after Rittenhouse had murdered two people, he was photographed flashing a white power symbol wearing a āfree as fuckā t-shirt with the Proud Boys.
There isnāt a doubt in my mind he went to that protest to murder.
I had to look up that hand gesture because Iād never heard of it, and finding out what is pissed me off. Are they fucking serious? The O-K hand gesture??
Itās so evil and rotten to try to corrupt such a common, useful, and benign hand gesture and to try to turn that into a symbol of hate. Absolutely enraging
If Rittenhouse hadnāt even murdered or physically harmed anyone, Iād still say heās worth societyās most energetic condemnation on his views alone.
Itās called, āplausible deniability.ā The in-group knows what theyāre doing and they can gaslight the out-group.
Itās a brilliant but sinister tactic.
It was supposed to be a troll post from 4chan, but they actually used it for that afterwards, so yes, we are looking at the evolution of dog whistles and the blurred lines of hate speech on the internet.
Yes itās a White Power Gesture now.
The most hilarious part is that it was originally a 4chan joke, and now theyāve accepted it as a real symbol. Itās like the flat earth. You joke and the crazies take it seriously.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll
Yeah, I donāt dig deep into all this culture war nonsense, but I got informed of this after giving one my buddies the ok sign. They explained it to me but I donāt care, I am taking the OK back, they cannot have it, it belongs us to us normal loving folks, not the toxic hate filled mongrels.