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Passion guided by reason's avatar

Sigh. People's perceptions have gotten seriously detached from reality. A lot of passionate neo-progressives believe that Rittenhouse killed black people, that he was a known white supremacist, and that he was spraying bullets into the crowd. All of those are false. As for the third of those, Rittenhouse did not shoot or attempt to shoot anybody who was not actively physically attacking him or threatening him with a weapon. If he had wanted to kill innocent people, it would have been easy; instead he did his best to escape instead.

Watching video of earlier in the evening, the protesters/rioters/arsonists (they are not the same, but they were mixed up together) were confronting the armed folks standing in front of the auto sales building (including Rittenhouse), who came to protect property, by invitation. The protesters did not look at all intimidated or in fear, but were quite aggressive. I did not see the armed folks point rifles at the protesters, though. It didn't get serious until Rosenbaum chased Rittenhouse saying he was going to kill the kid, and tried to grab the rifle - at which point Rittenhouse shot him, but then tried to run away from the crowd/mob, rather than being terrorist. He later shot somebody who had hit him in the head with a skateboard and tried to get the rifle, and somebody who pointed a handgun at him. In both cases, Rittenhouse stopped firing after the threat stopped (one shot each in the latter cases). To call that terrorism is way out of touch with reality. But if you want to stay in the neo-progressive tribe, you have to atleast pretend to believe it was white supremacist terrorism. Facts have no weight.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

Lately I've been seeing a growing number of people speaking inn terms of "my truth" and "speak your truth." Wrong word. They are talking about opinions, which may or may not contain truth and should not be confused for it. People hold their own opinions as the gold standard for truth with no consideration for the idea that they might be wrong. The internet provides a bubble full of people who agree with "their truth" (sic).

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