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Murder is literally the illegal killing of someone. So yes it absolutely matters whether he was convicted. To claim it's irrelevant that he was found not guilty of murder just exposes how detached from reality your position is. We can argue that he should have been found guilty, but you have to realize that the people who disagree with you don't think he's a murderer.
And I've heard plenty of them make the claim anyone who thinks he is a murderer is stupid. In this regard, you're just like them.
Irrelevant. People know him as a murderer, thus that is what he is famous for. Plenty of people are famous for shit thats not technically accurate.
I do, I just don't care what wrong people think about shit that's basic and obvious.
Yeah but those people are fucking stupid, so I wouldn't listen to them.
I don't, because I actually watch the damn trial
Is it basic and obvious that you should just let be yourself attacked by a crowd even after trying to flee from said crowd instead of defending yourself?
Ehh, except you're wrong. Using terms colloquially is one thing, no one has accepted that the legal definition of murder has changed. Certainly not regarding Rittenhouse.
Yes he is known for being a killer or a shooter but he is not a murderer until charged in a court of law. Make whatever argument for how the decision not to charge him was wrong, I won't disagree. He is a killer. The distinction is important because the "law" deemed it rightful.
Again, make whatever argument you want for that being wrong.
"killing black people isn't murder like killing rats with pesticide isn't murder" -the least racist conservative
"Murder" is not an exclusively legal term.
18 U.S.C. § 1111 defines murder as the unlawful killing of a human being with malice
the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
This is both the legal definition of murder and the dictionary definition.
Next you'll say "But lAnGuAgEs ChAnGe OvEr TiMe"
Edit: I'd like to point out the failure to recognize that my meaning is the law failed. Should he be a murderer? Yes. Is he? No. Why is that? The justice system failed.
You can apply whatever meaning to whatever words you want, none of that matters in the face of the far reaching power that is the U.S. justice system. You declaring he's a murderer is the most meaningless form of activism I can think of. You're an ant screaming at a bulldozer.
The people inviting him to speak seen him as a victim who acted in self defense. Which is the whole point of the question: he's not a murder to them.
It's funny how exactly like them you are, and how stupid you think they are for it.