Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

[Belsnickel]

(11-19-2021, 09:53 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The really bad part was people like Jackson-Lee and Pressley repeating known falsehoods that evidence has clearly shown to be false, like "crossing state lines with a rifle".  Rittenhouse was defamed by many people of prominence both in politics and the media, and every single one of them should be sued for as much money as they can get.  People, especially prominent people, need to learn that you can't hurl baseless accusations about people simply because you don't like them and expect to face no consequences.  You think the Sandman incident would have taught them something, but the far left is really feeling themselves right now and that's when people tend to go too far.

Usually when people say "the far left" I am one to jump in and counter that it is the centrist style ones being the asshats. This trial was very interesting for me, though. It should shock no one that I frequent several boards and subreddits devoted to left-leaning people who like to shoot things. We have to create out own places because of the hostility we face in the general firearms community. Anyway, I post in some where they wear the liberal label proudly (i.e. the more mainstream, centrist to center-left types) and I post in some places for, lets say, more radical lefties (lots of discussion of Marxism, revolution, and what not).

Now, usually, the liberal places are a lot less hardcore on the 2A rights than the lefty ones. Leftists have a tendency to go full on "repeal the NFA." Liberals, not so much. What I saw during this trial, though, was so many leftists throwing away their position on individual freedom to want Rittenhouse locked up. That was the prevailing position in these places. I don't know whether it was the majority opinion, others could have just been keeping quiet to not cause a ruckus, but that was what was at the forefront. Not the case for the liberals, where the overwhelming position from the start was that he should walk. It really highlighted to me why I don't tend to join these groups. So many of these leftists, who I agree with on many ideological things, were getting too tribal with their position on Rittenhouse.

Anyway, it was just a weird phenomenon I wanted to bring up.