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.

  • Eggyhead@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Had a cheeky peek at your comment history and it sure seems like youā€™re at war with reality, friend. You do you, but that fight is never going to end.

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      8 months ago

      ā€œWar with realityā€ is your way of saying ā€œwe must all think, act, and feel the same. If weā€™re not all liberals voting Democrat, than our country is doomed!ā€

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        8 months ago

        ā€œWar with realityā€ means you are adamantly denying reality to the point that youā€™ll argue with people to protect your belief in the propaganda youā€™ve fallen for.

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            8 months ago

            No one side is completely innocent, however- Iā€™ve not seen anyone on the left go to such measures to deny reality to the extent that the right-wing ignorati does.

            The people on the left that do- are usually incredibly fringe and extreme, but pretty much anyone right-of-center are just as batshit as you appear to be.