The clear message here is that, even if a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, plenty of people on the left (including members of Congress) will do whatever they can to ensure you’re punished if you have the wrong politics.
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It’s time to revisit the coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse.
With the news that he has been acquitted on all counts, don’t forget the ways that Dems and the corporate press came together to craft a false narrative in his case.
Let’s break down how we got here⤵️
Among the numerous grotesque aspects of the media propaganda about the Rittenhouse case and similar cases is the constant attempt to claim that people of color are a monolith and all have exactly the same opinion as elite media liberals about this and everything else.
@may0farmer@mtaibbi I don’t really care who you are or what you got kicked out of. It’s not about what gang people are in, it’s about using your brain to think for yourself. Matt stays true to the old school liberal ideas of free speech and freedom of thought and that is not a Left or Right idea
The mass gaslighting over the Kyle Rittenhouse case is unreal. How toxic and destructive it is to convince half the country they live in a racist white supremacist society.