Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

[dill]

When people say white supremisist, I immediately think of David Duke and the neo-Nazis that marched in Skokie way back when. Those types are not shy about their beliefs.

I see two ways of viewing the term:

1. Common usage--David Duke, the Klan, neo-Nazis: people who organize and work for white dominance.

2. From perspectives like those of Critical Race Theory, which view white supremacism as more or less built into institutions and implicit, usually unstated and even unrecognized assumptions that white dominance of politics and culture is normal, "natural."  E.g., no problem if a white kid walks around a riot with a long gun. Doubtful the same holds for a black kid, or even a white kid sporting BLM slogans on his/her jacket. That scenario can unfold because of an unrecognized assumption of white dominance.

In this case, 2A and white supremacist groups recognize the significance of R's case for their cause, and that's why they are out there defending him, making him a cause celebre. It's not because he had prior connections to them. 

The kid will now have to consciously choose to associate or disassociate.