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.

  • @[email protected]
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    38 months ago

    “War with reality” means you are adamantly denying reality to the point that you’ll argue with people to protect your belief in the propaganda you’ve fallen for.

    • @ZK686
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      -78 months ago

      And the left doesn’t do this…right? LOL…

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        No one side is completely innocent, however- I’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.