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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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Domestic terrorist Kyle. Do not forget his title.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Fucking murderer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Such a childish scumbag."Murderer!"

[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aww, does little Kyle need a safe space?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Prison cells are pretty safe.

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[–] [email protected] 229 points 9 months ago (48 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I don't think he gets many other job offers

[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Racist murderer? Does that not sound like American cop material to you?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

He's a mascot for the GOP - I doubt he'd have that hard a time getting a job at Fox or some other misinformation distributor.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Who the fuck would listen to him? He's got all the charisma you'd expect a snot-nosed faux-crying-at-trial murderous teenager would have. Playing the "victim" of the "woke leftist mob" only gets you 15 minutes- just ask that dipshit AR-wielding ambulance chaser and his mustard-covered wife in Missouri how famous they are these days.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Why was there a dog on stage with him?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because he's a pussy, and they wouldn't let him carry his rifle on stage to shoot people in 'self-defense'.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Cuz he's a pussy ass bitch

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not true, the first guy he shot was armed with a plastic bag.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Crush the little fuck before he gets a foothold.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"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

[–] [email protected] 69 points 9 months ago (2 children)

“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…”

Press (X) to doubt

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 247 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (21 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

You're telling me that the guy who showed up to counter protest with a gun, who provoked protestors while holding a gun, is actually a coward who's too afraid to comment on the racist remarks of his shitty friend.

Who'da'thunk'it

[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (26 children)

“I don’t know anything about that,”

This seems to be the canned response to all "uncomfortable" topics.

It seems that right-wing "debates" are not about arguing a point or another, but bringing up the "right" talking points, and backing out the wrong ones.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah, make that piece of shit feel bad. Pure uncut Colombian schadenfreude.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What is Colombian schadenfreude?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Uncut Colombian" is a drug reference for cocaine. He's just trying to say it's the "best of the best".

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Probably still schadenfreude, since we use the German word in English.

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[–] [email protected] 154 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They fly him around the country, but the media outfit he's working for didn't bother to invest in media training for their homicidal poster boy?

So much for standing your ground.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

Can't wait for him to wrong-turn himself into a random driveway and get a taste of his own medicine from one of his own.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

He crossed state lines to hunt people, and now has a taste for human blood.

Your warning is legitimate.

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