Kyle Rittenhouse says he will sue Whoopi Goldberg

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I really like Whoopi Goldberg & I support black folk in general, but Kyle Rittenhouse is an innocent man. I don't blame him for wanting to sue her on this issue. It is traumatic to be persistently accused of being something you are not:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10537361/Kyle-Rittenhouse-plans-sue-Whoopi-Goldberg-celebrities-politicians-athletes.html

Most people don't get to shoot 3 people to death and then just walk away with no legal consequences.

I think most people who are or were faced with a person who is chasing them, whilst the chased person is holding a gun - would be very scared and would be prone to acting in self-defense.

What kind of nut case chases someone with a gun? You know you are dealing with a crazy person there and that induces fear in any human. Fear causes bad things to happen, like shooting people in self-defense.

True, he was only role-playing a cop. But if a whole police community appreciates his actions - he might as well be one of the team.

I'll add to this that in no way am I promoting Kyle Rittenhouse as a cult of personality. The guy should not have took it up upon himself to become involved in any of this. But the situation is what it is.

The black folk shot are heroes in their respective communities, since they tried to take down a cop.

In a wider sense, my personal perspective is that BLM are a toxic movement. Yes, there is massive injustice & inequality for black folk on a societal level. Black people are horribly oppressed by White folk. But BLM goes about almost everything the wrong way, by escalating every issue, instead of mixing de-escalation with escalation techniques.

The people that run BLM do it for money & not for social justice.

BLM is basically predatory capitalism in action, feeding on black misery, in my humble opinion.

Does Rittenhouse think he can silence everyone who calls a murderer a murderer?

I shall add to that - calling a woman a whore or a slut on social media should be an offense, too.

I think that's going a bit too far in limiting speech, especially given that murder has broader meanings and usages than just in a criminal justice context.

Whether it's Rittenhouse, or OJ Simpson or cops and soldiers "just following orders" or pretty much anyone else who's taken a human life, I don't feel the state is entitled to punish people for defining a killing as murder even if that killing doesn't meet the state's definition. Further, I don't think punishing people is a viable response because that will just encourage more of it.