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Why do conservatives think Kyle Rittenhouse is a hero, but then demonize Tamir Rice and Philando Castile?

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Why do conservatives think Kyle Rittenhouse is a hero, but then demonize Tamir Rice and Philando Castile?

So Rittenhouse had a gun and shot people in the streets, the cops didn't shoot him or stop him from doing that and conservatives say he is a hero.

Tamir Rice had toy gun and the cops shot him, Philando Castile had a gun in his car during a traffic stop and the cops shot him. Conservatives ignore these cases or say they were no angels.

If a black BLM protester open carried a gun at a protest and the cops shot him because they thought he was dangerous l bet conservatives would say he deserved it.

There wouldn't be BLM protests if cops didn't shoot black people for no good reason.
 
Kyle shot white people in self-defense…that’s the likely outcome of the trial.
 
BirdinHand said:
Kyle shot white people in self-defense…that’s the likely outcome of the trial.
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What is that racist crap for? He shot people. It makes no difference who was black or white. Only the results matter, and the results were injuries and deaths of people who did not deserve any harm.
 
Yes_Minister said:
Why do conservatives think Kyle Rittenhouse is a hero, but then demonize Tamir Rice and Philando Castile?

So Rittenhouse had a gun and shot people in the streets, the cops didn't shoot him or stop him from doing that and conservatives say he is a hero.

Tamir Rice had toy gun and the cops shot him, Philando Castile had a gun in his car during a traffic stop and the cops shot him. Conservatives ignore these cases or say they were no angels.

If a black BLM protester open carried a gun at a protest and the cops shot him because they thought he was dangerous l bet conservatives would say he deserved it.

There wouldn't be BLM protests if cops didn't shoot black people for no good reason.
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Most conservatives I know are pissed at the Philando Castile incident. It was a bullshit shoot and the officer should have been charged and convicted. Tamil Rice is more controversial and there is not a universal opinion amongst conservatives.
 
PirateMk1 said:
Most conservatives I know are pissed at the Philando Castile incident. It was a bullshit shoot and the officer should have been charged and convicted. Tamil Rice is more controversial and there is not a universal opinion amongst conservatives.
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How can shooting somebody just because he had a toy gun be even slightly supported by anyone?
 
Patriotic Voter said:
What is that racist crap for? He shot people. It makes no difference who was black or white. Only the results matter, and the results were injuries and deaths of people who did not deserve any harm.
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In the Rittenhouse case as far as the recipients of the aforementioned self defence are concerned, good riddance they more than earned their fates. Quite frankly the police abdicated their responsibility, and the law at that point did not exist and natural law assumed promininace. The local businesses should have formed a posse and been far more assertive in defending their properties.
 
PirateMk1 said:
In the Rittenhouse case as far as the recipients of the aforementioned self defence are concerned, good riddance they more than earned their fates. Quite frankly the police abdicated their responsibility, and the law at that point did not exist and natural law assumed promininace. The local businesses should have formed a posse and been far more assertive in defending their properties.
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Exactly how did they all deserve their fates?
 
Patriotic Voter said:
How can shooting somebody just because he had a toy gun be even slightly supported by anyone?
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IMO the officers were negligent. That said the case is controversial because it was unknown AT the time of the incident. IMO officers should not fire their firearms unless fired upon first regardless how their suspect is armed. Negotiation, de-escalation, and non lethal means should be employed with lethal means absolute last resort. Not to mention there should be a long overdue, culling and cleaning of the law books.
 
Patriotic Voter said:
Exactly how did they all deserve their fates?
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They assaulted and battered people, destroyed property, arson, negligent at best discharge of firearms, general terrorism, and were a clear and present danger to society as well as to Rittenhouse. Shall I continue?
 
Patriotic Voter said:
What is that racist crap for? He shot people. It makes no difference who was black or white. Only the results matter, and the results were injuries and deaths of people who did not deserve any harm.
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The OP mentioned race. Hence why I pointed out that Kyle didn’t shoot any black people.

And he shot in self-defense, as is being asserted at the trial.

Let’s see how the verdict comes in.
 
Lycanthrope said:
Conservatives would be analyzing/commenting on KR's home life and absentee father from now until doomsday if he had been a black kid taking an AR-15 into the protest to "protect businesses."
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No they would be getting the Rittenhouse treatment. You would think that with all the black Republicans and conservatives that for run for office and get elected and are in the party in general that the Dems and company would figure out the conservatives by and large are not racist. Maybe the Dems and co like holding on to their very outdated and untrue tropes.
 
PirateMk1 said:
They assaulted and battered people, destroyed property, arson, negligent at best discharge of firearms, general terrorism, and were a clear and present danger to society as well as to Rittenhouse. Shall I continue?
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Elaborate on all of that.
 
Yes_Minister said:
Why do conservatives think Kyle Rittenhouse is a hero, but then demonize Tamir Rice and Philando Castile?

So Rittenhouse had a gun and shot people in the streets, the cops didn't shoot him or stop him from doing that and conservatives say he is a hero.

Tamir Rice had toy gun and the cops shot him, Philando Castile had a gun in his car during a traffic stop and the cops shot him. Conservatives ignore these cases or say they were no angels.

If a black BLM protester open carried a gun at a protest and the cops shot him because they thought he was dangerous l bet conservatives would say he deserved it.

There wouldn't be BLM protests if cops didn't shoot black people for no good reason.
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Who demonized Tamir Rice or Philando Castile? I'm not aware of that happening. What people like about Rittenhouse is that he was actively trying to better the community that leftists were tearing and burning down, because the elected officials had abandoned the community.
 
Patriotic Voter said:
Elaborate on all of that.
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You haven't been paying attention, I assume. For example, Rosenbaum (the 1st person that got shot) had started a literal dumpster fire and was pushing it into a gas station.
www.kenoshanews.com

Damage due to rioting, unrest in Kenosha tops $50 million; 2,000 Guard assisted here

The Kenosha County Board met as a committee of the whole Tuesday night at the Kenosha County Job Center to hear from its members about how the community can move
www.kenoshanews.com www.kenoshanews.com
 
Well you can't really compare a child playing alone with a BB gun in a park and a man driving alone in a car with a gun both getting executed by the police to a child going to a riot with a gun and shit happening. It's false comparison all around.
 
Yes_Minister said:
Why do conservatives think Kyle Rittenhouse is a hero, but then demonize Tamir Rice and Philando Castile?

So Rittenhouse had a gun and shot people in the streets, the cops didn't shoot him or stop him from doing that and conservatives say he is a hero.

Tamir Rice had toy gun and the cops shot him, Philando Castile had a gun in his car during a traffic stop and the cops shot him. Conservatives ignore these cases or say they were no angels.

If a black BLM protester open carried a gun at a protest and the cops shot him because they thought he was dangerous l bet conservatives would say he deserved it.

There wouldn't be BLM protests if cops didn't shoot black people for no good reason.
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I think most conservatives would reject your premise that he's a HERO. He just exercised his natural right of self defense, nothing more. We support that, nothing more.
 
PirateMk1 said:
Most conservatives I know are pissed at the Philando Castile incident. It was a bullshit shoot and the officer should have been charged and convicted. Tamil Rice is more controversial and there is not a universal opinion amongst conservatives.
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^^^^^^
this
 
Yes_Minister said:
Why do conservatives think Kyle Rittenhouse is a hero, but then demonize Tamir Rice and Philando Castile?

So Rittenhouse had a gun and shot people in the streets, the cops didn't shoot him or stop him from doing that and conservatives say he is a hero.

Tamir Rice had toy gun and the cops shot him, Philando Castile had a gun in his car during a traffic stop and the cops shot him. Conservatives ignore these cases or say they were no angels.

If a black BLM protester open carried a gun at a protest and the cops shot him because they thought he was dangerous l bet conservatives would say he deserved it.

There wouldn't be BLM protests if cops didn't shoot black people for no good reason.
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The Kenosha riots were not a BLM protest. A lot of bad things do happen at some BLM protests, but let's not malign BLM any more than they're actually due by trying to claim the Kenosha riots were affiliated with BLM. Additionally, I think a more important question than the one you asked is why do some people believe that Rittenhouse should have allowed a violent, mentally ill man disarm him while attacking him? Is it because they don't like Trump, they don't like people exercising their constitutional rights, or what?

Each situation is unique and people are able to compartmentalize the situations independently. Just because all events resulted in a shooting does not mean you have to have the same opinion with all of them. It's the circumstance that matters, not the race. It would be a good exercise to look past race and see the individual events for what they are.
 
Yes_Minister said:
Says the guy who constantly makes "he's no angel" statements about Castile.
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it is hilarious watching those who are hostile to gun rights trying to pretend they sound like Charlton Heston or Larry Pratt when it comes Castile but then damn Rittenhouse. I said since day one, the cop who shot PC was reckless and panicked
 
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