The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict of not guilty.

I'm an urban liberal, no alignment with right wing militia types. If I was to see a 17 old kid planning to go out pretending to be a cop and/or first responder like Riitenhouse was I'd call the police to inform. Yet in the situation in which Rittenhouse fired it was 1) self defense 2) a situation of anarchy and wide spread property violence. He was being charged at by people involved in that property vioence. It is not ok to care about them. It is very seriously not ok to stand in solidarity with them.

This trial was really about the most insidious claim of the 2020 Summer of Love / Racial Reckoning: that there is a difference between lives and property, that we sometimes choose between them, and that we should always choose lives over property.

Dave Chapelle says if you take a man's livelihood you might as well be taking his life. Lives is a verb. (Pun intended.) People are the subject and property is the object. Killing either one destroys lives.

People who claim to value people more than property wouldn't actually piss on you if you were on fire. People who destroy property are the same level of criminal as those who kill.

It is not ok to stand in solidarity with them, and it is criminal to want them free and without prosecution.

If you saw burning vehicles and buildings, and thought it was ok in order to serve cultural change, you are a piece of shit and it's not ok that our society accepts your extremist views...and you.