"Charlie Kirk has said a lot of racist things," said a student addressing Rittenhouse from the audience.

"What racist things has Charlie Kirk said?" Rittenhouse challenged. "We're gonna have a little bit of a dialogue of what racist things that Charlie Kirk said."

The student responded of Kirk: "He says that we shouldn't celebrate Juneteenth, we shouldn't celebrate Martin Luther King day—we should be working those days—he called Ketanji Brown Jackson an affirmative action hire, he said all this nonsense about George Floyd, and he said he'd be scared if a Black pilot was on a plane. Does that not seem racist?"

"I don't know anything about that," Rittenhouse said from the stage, prompting jeers among the audience.

"Does that seem racist is a yes or no question, Kyle," yelled one attendee.

"Well, after all the things I just told you, would you consider that hate speech," the student asked Rittenhouse, who had a dog with him onstage.

"I'm not gonna comment on that," Rittenhouse said, sparking more noise from the crowd.

Seconds later, Rittenhouse abruptly exited the stage to cheers from the crowd. The attendees were then promptly ordered to depart the venue.

Chickenshit without a gun

Even if you don't think it was murder, it's repulsive that he is trying to make a career out of killing two people.

Maybe I'm missing something as I'm not from the states. Why the hell is a guy who is famous for murder invites to talk at a university?

Why the fuck is this person on a stage to begin with?

"Everyone, Kyle Rittenhouse is here to tell us about indiscriminately provoking people and killing them. Round of applause, please."

Confronting Kyle Rittenhouse? Be careful, no sudden movements. We wouldn't want him to feel threatened, now would we?

I would also like to point out after Rittenhouse had murdered two people, he was photographed flashing a white power symbol wearing a "free as fuck" t-shirt with the Proud Boys.

There isn't a doubt in my mind he went to that protest to murder.

He’ll always be a murderer. It’ll hit him someday after the right has forgotten him.

"I think it's funny how everyone's saying I got booted off stage, when in reality, we just did a hard cutoff time and just happened to leave at that time.."

Lmfao solid save

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.

He was a fucking murderous snowflake then and he's still a pathetic fucking snowflake now.

Backstage footage...

mods removed my comment for saying this guy is a murderer, cause he killed people.

Apparently, that is equivalent to hate speech.

Careful, he may feel the urge to self-defend again from hecklers.

Rittenhouse is a murderer!

Aww, does little Kyle need a safe space?

At least he didn't murder anyone in this confrontation.

Try not to shoot someone on your way to the parking lot.

I still cant' get past his forced cry at his trail, with the little side eye peek to see if they were watching.

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.

Cafeful, this is a guy famous for killing when feeling threatened by unarmed people.

I almost feel sorry for how this kid is going to be forever type-cast as a stupid gun-nut culture warrior type. Before his brain has even fully developed. What a disaster. What he did was gawdawful but it's likely he will NEVER learn from his mistake and become a whole human being. Not when being a total dumbass for the RW elitists willing to fund such things pays a lot better than the alternative, I bet.

And when people talk about how what he did was in "self defense"....I always ask, what fuck was he even doing there in the first place? He had zero reason to be there.

this dude bought a gun illegally (wasnt charged because of a loop hole) recklessly endangered numerous people. His parents fucking allowed this shit

AND he has the audacity to be a political figure? Fuck this guy, seriously.

Aw and I had forgotten this murderer existed

Conservative finds out that being unpopular but getting off on court cases/winning the electoral college doesn't change their unpopularity. More at 11.

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.

i know a few students at MSU and watched this whole thing unfold over the last few weeks. i was very disappointed with the school leadership for allowing this to happen. what happened to him there should have been worse, but i was glad to see the student body come together to make this subhuman garbage feel unwelcome.

What happened to the car dealership that allowed an underage armed kid from out of state to guard their property? Did they quietly settle for a lot of money? That’s an angle of the story I want to know about.

"Quick update. We made it back safely!"

Shame

Why is that guy still relevant to them after 4 years? Either send him to prison or therapy, based on what you think he did, and be done with it.

Pussy

Snowflake

Why was there a dog on stage with him?

I wish someone would gun him down in the street. It would be poetic, almost.

I will never name my kid Kyle

Why are we giving this guy a platform? He's basically a grifter who got famous from walking into a Black Lives Matter protest to stir shit up, shooting three (and killing two) protesters and then somehow being acquited by a jury.

Crush the little fuck before he gets a foothold.

I just love it that he said he left because the time was up and not because he was booed and confronted.

Fucking murderer

since coming across this post i watched the footage. alot of nuance less so in the comments here. i dislike Kyle Rittenhouse hardheartedly, he went to the protest with an intention that was politically motivated. as to the people that wanted to cause harm to the little shit, its understandable but also gives these movements a bad name and fuel for media to condemn BLM, antifa, IRA, these were all movements to push against class divide.

people should also listen to the podcast alphabet boys or understand that government meddling like FBI employing x-cons as undercover blm members has lead to the vilance displayed in new media.

Fuck this kid. He should be rotting in a jail cell - certainly not sauntering around giving speeches on uni campuses.

Domestic terrorist Kyle. Do not forget his title.

Rittenhouse acting like a complete and utter coward. Gee, color me surprised.

Those students are lucky that piece of shit wasn't strapped.

Did I miss something? That was my first thought when I was expecting the headline to be about another trial but it was about this guy being invited to speak to students.

But I'm glad that university is filled with people who think. People with a brain understand that this guy is a murderer and should be in jail permanently under a few tons of dirt.

The people who invited this guy should be invested.... follow the money 🤑 investigated. Because they probably have a brain and would have expected this. The motive was probably to cause media coverage.

Sure, you're entitled to your opinion. That doesn't make them famous for murder.

Do we have a list of schools he is speaking at, we should organize and call the schools to share our displeasure, especially to the advancement department, who is in charge of donations

takes deep breath

WOMP WOMP

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.

ruh roh... he went to pump up his kicks.. run!

Hoping this will happen when he comes to Kent State

Such a childish scumbag."Murderer!"

backstage footage.

That poor support dog. Rover probably be all "what did I do to be teathered to this removed?"

How many more stops are left? Or as I want to call them, comedic episodes.

You could say, he got murdered!

He was a trooper for singing Tomorrow belongs to me, from Cabaret, at the front of the stage before storming off.

Ok... So I don't get this. This guy got away with shooting some black protesters and seems pretty racist.

Why exactly does that make him worth putting on stage? And at a college no less...

For anyone interested the full trail is still available online and is a very interesting watch for anyone even remotely interested in the US justice system. I do feel a lot of the commenters above may feel differently after watching the entire trial and viewing the evidence presented first-hand rather than skewed through the lenses of journalists from either side of the political compass.

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.

The misinformation in this thread is real.

I'd bet money that most people here didn't watch the trial or the videos of what happened. The media baselessly called him a murderer and that was enough for people to parrot it.

Kid sees the downfall of society happening and tries to do something about it. He then defended himself when needed against 3 aggressors.

Got to respect the kid.

Kyle Rittenhouse is the Greta Thunberg of the right-wing. Change my mind.

This dude is 100% innocent ...ya'll just mad that he killed two criminals.

If this kid was black, you'd all be praising him for killing two white people who were attacking him. The reason Lemmy and Reddit hate this dude is because you associate him with some kind of "white privilege" for going to help defend businesses from being destroyed (at the request of the city's businesses who had enough of the rioting and torching) he ends up defending himself against criminals who were there just to cause problems.

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 😂

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.