Kyle Rittenhouse didn't commit any crimes. Brock Turner received public vitriol commensurate with his crimes; I think a better comparison would be with the hockey player who pushed an empty wheelchair down some stairs. It's indefensible but at the end of the day not the kind of thing that warrants an Internet Week of Hate. Certainly less bad than hundreds of acts of grand theft auto.
It's indefensible but at the end of the day not the kind of thing that warrants an Internet Week of Hate.
I'm sorry, but what?
Brock Turner was convicted of sexual assault.
He served 3 months, and likely gave someone else a lifetime of hurt because he couldn't control his sexual urges to the point he was willing to have sex with an unconscious person.
He served 3 months. after being rich enough to post bail and hire decent lawyers.
But somehow, he doesn't deserve hate and this is less bad than grand theft auto?
Kyle Rittenhouse was not convicted by a Jury, something very different.
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was toothless primarily because of its Jury trial clause, which guaranteed that no one violating civil rights would ever be convicted by a jury of their white peers.
It's not "self defense" when you arm yourself and drive yourself intentionally into an are trying to create and/or find trouble.
