Rittenhouse's appearance at a university generated hostility from a number of students but he remained positive, saying it had been "a great event."

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 college’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 Rittenhouse’s presence.

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

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

      • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        Do you consistently defend people that you admit are unqualified for their job and incapable of doing it - even when it’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?

          • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 months ago

            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 “just asking questions” energy. If you’re capable of drawing conclusions, own them. If you’re not, you’ve got nothing to contribute here.

            • aidan@lemmy.worldM
              1·
              9 months ago

              from straightforward situations or answering simple questions.

              Do you mean baseless assumptions?

              This has strong neo-Nazi-style “just asking questions” energy. If you’re capable of drawing conclusions, own them.

              This is your reaction to me saying it’s not surprising that a young adult is awkward and doesn’t handle unexpected confrontation well.

              • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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                9 months ago

                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 they’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 it’s plausible they’re Hamas.

                This is your reaction to me saying it’s not surprising that a young adult is awkward and doesn’t handle unexpected confrontation well.

                Nope - this is in response to you seeing clear, entirely unambiguous evidence of warcrimes and saying we can’t possibly know what’s happening. I know how old I am, and some genocide denying dipshit telling me otherwise isn’t going to change that.

                Just to drive the point home, I’ll ask the question we know you can’t answer one final time - where’s your evidence these civilians are Hamas?

                  • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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                    9 months ago

                    My mistake - I’ll return to the question you haven’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 aren’t doing anything of value - it’s not as though they’re performing surgery, driving a bus, or flipping burgers.