Is It Worth Comparing The Two?

Kyle Rittenhouse vs. Karmelo Anthony.

I’ve long kinda thought Kyle Rittenhouse wasn’t so much a left-right issue, or a racial issue, as a “wow, society is lacking purpose” issue. Him crying in court is admittedly a pretty good meme of the last five or so years.

Now we have this case in Frisco, where a black teenager stabbed a white teenager (first flag) and the white teenager looked generally attractive and was an athlete (second flag), and he was a twin and apparently died in his brother’s arms (third flag), but now there’s been some context that perhaps it was all self-defense (another culture war point), and maybe the white kid smashed the black kid’s phone and shoved him (culture war), and the black kid’s family and friends raised some money online for his eventual defense, but now the right-leaning ideology is going crazy, even though they raised money online for Kyle’s defense back when that happened.

I guess it’s also worth remembering here that Kyle’s situation was in August 2020, when America was very much still reeling in COVID — I actually think the Rittenhouse deal was three months to the day after George Floyd. Wow. This Karmelo Anthony thing happened at another crazy time post-Trump 47 and with racial tension probably at an all-time, non-1862 high.