Rittenhouse as Right-Wing Poster Boy?

Thank The Guardian for this interview:

Kathleen Belew, a historian of American white power movements and author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, argues that the fact that Rittenhouse’s trial is being read as a victory by more mainstream components of the right has the potential to serve as a rallying cry for increased militant vigilantism against US racial justice protesters.

 Professor Belew did not make this connection but it came to my mind - the Nazi poster boy Horst Wessel. Another loser made into propaganda opportunity. Except the disinformation gains adherents and the adherents fall into disaster.

I watched a bit of Rittenhouse's testimony. I watched his dead eyes and his carp like lips, and I thought this is the best white people have to offer?

Those of us white people who are not so scared of a changing world that we need the hidey hole of white supremacy need to take a stand against the slander of Kyle Rittenhouse and his ilk. Start with following the link above and reading the full interview.

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