Posted on 11/28/2021 6:28:32 PM PST by blam
President Joe Biden and media figures are not the only persons who are “angry” after a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges. Despite a jury with the same racial makeup convicting the defendants in Georgia in the Arbery case, many have denounced the entire legal system as racist.
It does that matter that there was evidence supporting Rittenhouse’s claim of self-defense that was largely missing from prior coverage of the case. Now students and groups at Arizona State University are planning a rally and demanding that Rittenhouse be expelled. With leaders like President Biden calling Rittenhouse a “white supremacist” before any investigation was completed and legal analysts calling the entire trial “white supremacy on steroids,” there is a sense of legitimacy in demanding such extrajudicial punishments.
Students groups like MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán), Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition are organizing a rally this week to “get murderer Kyle Rittenhouse off [the] campus.”
He is not on campus since he is enrolled as an online student.
However, Rittenhouse has expressed interest in in-person attendance at ASU. Students and faculty are being called to the rally to “protect students from a violent, blood-thirsty murderer.”
In addition, ASU student Taskina Bhuiya started a Change.org petition to denounce the verdict and to call for Rittenhouse to be “held accountable for the crimes he has committed.” Without a sense of irony, the petition declares “ASU should be a safe and inclusive place for all students, which will be disrupted if Kyle Rittenhouse is allowed to attend this school.” Inclusive unless you are an acquitted individual who must be “held accountable.” Hundreds have signed the petition insisting that “Rittenhouse should pay for his crimes.”
The campaign reflects a growing sense that the legal system is only worthy of respect (or even protection) if it rules in the way that we demand. It is the same mentality that has led members of Congress, law professors, and others to demand the expansion or restriction of the Supreme Court because it now has a conservative majority. Liberal justices like the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Stephen Breyer has opposed such efforts as inimical to the rule of law.
We saw a similar campaign to block Nick Sandmann from attending Transylvania University. Various media outfits correctly false coverage of Sandmann, who was wrongly accused of racist attacks on a Native American activist. Various media companies settled with him and he is still in litigation with others. Yet, figures from an ACLU officer to a professor raised the alarm over his attending college and appearing on campus.
The fact is that Rittenhouse cannot be expelled or kept off campus due to such mob measures. He would quickly prevail in court. However, the rally and the rhetoric magnify the risk to his safety by those who demand “accountability” regardless of any verdict.
It will be interesting to see how many faculty step forward to defend his right to attend the college despite any misgivings over his case. Conversely, we have seen faculty members join such mob efforts, even attacking others on campus, blocking speakers, destroying political signs, or encouraging attacks on student journalists. University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis defended the murder of a conservative protester and said that he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. Other faculty members have made similarly disturbing comments “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters and other outrageous statements. It is less common to hear professors today speak out for the rights of conservatives or others who are being targeted by campaigns on campus. The risk is simply too great that they will be “tagged” as intolerant, racist, or reactionary.
Rittenhouse has every right to attend ASU in person and has every right to expect that he can do so safely. If ASU cannot muster the integrity and courage to reaffirm those rights publicly, it has abandoned a core defining element for higher education. Colleges often sit in cringing silence as individual students are targeted and harassed. Students have every right to protest, but ASU must be clear and public in supporting Rittenhouse’s right to access to an education on its campuses.
Great point. Perhaps Rittenhouse should put ASU on trial and make the heat unbearable. I would say that 100 million dollars might make him go away.
She started one in January 2020 to stop on-campus classes because of Covid. Apparently she likes to start sh!t. The Covid campaign had about 30,000 signatures and went nowhere. Maybe her employer needs to be heard from about the little fascist that works for them. Should we start a petition for that? Lol.
Another group to sue.
Good.
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“...them and make it for a substantial amount. Let’s see how eager these Marxists are when they are looking at a lifetime of debt.”
They are leftists who are probably doing leftist degrees... They have already signed up for a lifetime of debt...
I’m sure these idiot kids have no idea that simply hiring an attorney to represent them in a lawsuit will be the most expensive thing they’ve ever done, and if the judgment is against them ... Hoo boy.
Bunch of women’s studies majors who have no marketable skills.
ASU is one of the leading party schools according to Playboy for the past 50 years. They dont care about politics. i suspect most will leave Kyle alone, but of course there are leftard assholes in every bunch in society.
How many students? What, two?
If they get 1 person kicked out. Then every student needs to present their complete background records.
If statical averages are correct.
Then I could force more minorities getting expelled.
If a white person who was attacked by whites and protected himself is racist. Then what the hell is NOT racist.
Students and faculty are being called to the rally to “protect students from a violent, blood-thirsty murderer.”
...and create ASU safe spaces for child molesting career criminals. What a bunch of morons.
MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán), Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Multicultural Solidarity CoalitionSomething tells me that these are not spontaneous campus organizations that just appeared because.
Then by the same token. Expel any military veteran. You know cause they are racists for harming Muslims,!etc.
Yep. It keeps growing.
LOL!
Kyle has a contract with ASU. He would pay them and they would provide an education and ultimately a degree if he were successful in his course work. This Taskina creature is a third party interfering with the contract. Why is that not actionable?
List of lawsuits getting longer.
and a quadruple scholarship for the waukesha phag
That’s what I was thinking too.
Since those groups put out a pamphlet calling him a “bloodthirsty racist murder,” he should sue them for libel.
Yep, he’s got so many people he could sue it’s mind blowing. I sure as hell would sue her, and sue her brains out whatever little she has.
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