Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

[dill]

There is that photo of R giving the white power sign with some proud boys.

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kyle-ritten...ys-photos/

I don't make a lot of that, though. He is a confused kid, responding to praise from a right wing organization, not a member of that of any other WS organization, so far as I know. 

The answer to your question may depend on how you define "White supremacist." Doesn't look like he had much sympathy for black lives matter; but it's not clear that he has committed himself to any movement explicitly working for that goal.

I hope we aren't going to add the confused kid defense to the affluenza defense so that people under 18 can get away with whatever they want.

Well, the "confused kid" label just addresses the question of whether R is a white supremacist. He might be ripe for the plucking by WS groups now, but I don't think he belonged to one when he "ran to danger" that night in Kenosha.

So my label is no defense of his actions. He clearly has absorbed a narrative about riots and BLM and our 2A "rights" in which he wanted to become an actor, exercising his 2A rights to "protect property"--someone's, anyone's--over there in that other state. A developing militia fantasy, perhaps.

I am not happy that our current constructions of gun rights and self defense makes it likely that armed kids who rush to riots can be absolved of responsibility for any resulting deaths.