Kyle Rittenhouse included in heroes list in school

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A teacher in Dallas, Texas is facing intense backlash after asking students to write an English essay about a modern-day “hero,” with accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse listed among the options.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7344293/kyle ... ssignment/

The list of heroes was a rather strange list including George Floyd, Cesar Chavez, Malcolm X and Gandhi were also on the list, though the English teacher misspelled two of the names. He wrote “Malcom X” and appeared to confuse Gandhi’s name, calling him “Mahatmas Gandhi,”

Rittenhouse is certainly a hero to the National Foundation for Gun Rights (NFGR) who have donated $50K toward his legal fees
https://www.foxnews.com/us/kenosha-shoo ... ghts-group

Kyle Rittenhouse is a hero. He risked his life to defend family businesses and provide medical care to those wounded by violent criminals who were rioting, assaulting people, and setting buildings on fire. If he didn't bring a gun to defend himself, there's a good chance they would have murdered him.

To be fair, "Mahatma" is a title, not a name.

And putting aside how you feel about the incident and everything surrounding it, in what sense is Floyd a hero?

The kid brought a gun hoping for a chance to use it.. ended up using it when he did not have to.. in the mayhem of a protest, it is easy to claim self defense, but people at protests do not start shooting each other even if someone shoves you or hits you.. in his case, he pointed a gun at someone and the guy started provoking him and pushed his gun.. he then killed that person and then two more people.. nobody actually attacked him and he had no injuries.. he probably did not even defend any particular business, he just wanted to walk around with a big gun in a mayhem of a protest inspired to protect civilized businesses against barbarians, when he was the dangerous barbarian thinking of himself as a noble defender.. even police don't shoot protesters with guns when they rob a business..

Kyle Rittenhouse, the most devious mass shooter in recent history. Knowing full well that first aid and putting out dumpster fires would provoke the peaceful protesters to immediately attempt to nonviolently restrain him, he brandished his fully semi-automatic assault-flavoured murdergun with a 300 round magazine clip and senselessly gunned down three paragons of pacifism in their valiant attempt to suggest he take up skateboarding instead.

What exactly is the teacher's way of thinking here. I could see his argument about Kyle Rittenhouse if he stuck strictly to a list of people from modern day news events, but he included ghandi and Malcolm x, both of whom were dead long before the students parents were likely brought into the world.

Does anyone know if this assignment is part of drug education week at the school?

Maybe the teacher had planned another assignment called "Person involved in a difficult court case" and got the two lists of people mixed up.

I think what's interesting is the weird acceptance that Rittenhouse could be considered in the same vein as "actual historic figures"

Chavez, Malcolm X, Gandhi actually had a reak impact on world history. You could also argue that George Floyd's murder also has had global repurcussions.

But Rittenhouse? really....

Hatefully motivated violence really stands out in these people's minds. Mass shootings, vehicular homicides, bomb threats, racist killings, it's one unending snuff film feeding the fetishes of a psychopathic cult. It's never wrong to them, if one of them did it.

I'm not going to sugarcoat it to spare the feelings of Republicans, these are crimes against humanity plain & simple.

Bugger off fascists.

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It's no less base than people on the right wing wishing death upon all who oppose them.

They will tell you so to your face, smugly & with self-assurance that they're the civilized one protecting their keep.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

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