pjmedia.com If anything became apparent during the Rittenhouse trial, it’s that there was a lot of misinformation out there. Unfortunately, like everything else, the trial was heavily politicized, pitting the right against the left — and as usual, the left got so much about this case wrong. Anyone who watched the trial would have realized from the evidence that Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense. But perhaps the most troubling thing is how some of the people with the strongest opinions about Rittenhouse and the verdict don’t seem to know a lot about the facts of the case. And frankly, I have seen little evidence that they want to. For them, the narrative is more important than the truth.
1. Kyle isn’t a white supremacist
As PJM’s Rick Moran previously noted, there isn’t any evidence that Rittenhouse holds white supremacist views. The most significant “proof” the media could come up with was that he was at a bar at the same time as a member of the Proud Boys and that he was seen flashing the OK hand signal. While some left-leaning groups like the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center believe the Proud Boys to be white nationalists, their Afro-Cuban international chairman disagrees. As for the OK symbol — that is something people have done for years and still do today without controversy. In fact, Joe Biden recently used the OK hand signal, prompting PolitiFact to come to his defense by declaring it is not a white power symbol. The idea that it is a white power symbol came from a 2017 hoax started on the 4chan website.
2. He didn’t kill black protesters
Perhaps to be consistent with the fiction that he was a white supremacist, many people seemed to believe that Rittenhouse killed black protesters. He actually shot three white men, wounding one and killing two…
