Let's pretend for the moment that Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer. Let's pretend that he showed up in Kenosha with the hope that somebody would assault him so he could kill somebody. Let's pretend, for the moment, that he's a domestic terrorist and a white supremacist. Let's pretend that all of those things are true despite the lack of evidence.
In fact, on top of all of that, let's pretend that all of the evidence that clearly shows that Kyle is innocent doesn't exist. Let's blank our minds of that. Let's forget that we know that Kyle was always retreating before firing his weapon. Let's pretend that none of the video exists and that all we know is that a seventeen year-old kid showed up to the site of a riot with a gun and a med kit and shot three people.
Let's even forget that one of the people shot admitted to pointing his own gun at Rittenhouse before Rittenhouse fired upon him. Let's forget the multiple witnesses who testified that Rittenhouse's life had been threatened.
Blank all of that out of your mind.
Okay, now, still, tell me why it was appropriate, if not celebrated, that crowdfunding sites were removing campaigns to support his defense fund. Tell me why you all have felt so confident calling him a racist and a terrorist for the last year. Tell us all why you were so afraid that he receive any competent defense. Tell us all how you square that work your vocal distain for the criminal justice system. Are you aware of or do you support the innocence project whose sole mission is seeing wrongfully convicted people freed? How to you square your presumptions of guilt and you crusade to see the cards stacked against a defendant with those noble causes? If you really believe that Rittenhouse is so clearly guilty, why is nerfing his defense fund worth the effort?
I don't think that any of you really believe that Rittenhouse is guilty. I think that you're seeing an opportunity to get a political opponent thrown under the bus and you're jumping on it.