While I might agree with a few of his observations, it is clear that he is so infected with TDS and leftism that he can't see straight as to what the problem really is. Of course, it is white America.

https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.co...JSpUlYRonU

Read the entire thing and see what you think. Here's just a small snippet.

Quote:I don’t believe Jacob Blake would have been shot seven times in the back by a cop if he was a white man. Not a chance.

I don’t care if Jacob Blake had, as the Wisconsin Department of Justice reported Wednesday, a knife in his vehicle. Blake had opened the driver’s side door and was leaning in when the officer shot him seven times in the back. That’s neither self-defense nor justice — it’s nearly an execution.

If the person leaning into that vehicle was Kyle Rittenhouse and if the teenager had a knife in the vehicle, I don’t believe for a second that police officer would have shot him seven times in the back. If white people were honest with themselves, they would, to a person, agree.

I don’t believe a 17-year-old like Rittenhouse should have access to an assault-style rifle.

I don’t believe police officers should simply look the other way when they see a white person carrying an assault-style rifle in public.

Part of my problem with what he wrote is that he ignores basic facts on some of the issues he wrote about. They get in the way of his narrative.

Quote:I don’t believe militias or hate groups should be able to use a social media platform such as Facebook to radicalize teenagers such as Rittenhouse.

No mention of the fact that social media is how the REAL hate groups BLM and Antifa are mobilizing and organizing. None. He also demonstrates that he is either unaware that BLM is a Marxist group or is deliberately not mentioning that part. HOW is Kyle 'radicalized?' That word doesn't mean what he thinks it means. He means that Kyle doesn't have a leftist worldview, so he's radical. No, you fool - the 'radicals' are on your side, burning, looting and murdering.

Quote:I don’t believe the American public has even begun to grasp the threat right-wing militias pose.

Right wing groups or militias are small in # compared to the REAL purveyors of hate from the left but you continue like all lefties do to gaslight the public into believing these lies, just like the leftwing bureaucrats in D.C. label rightwing groups as the real threat to America. What both YOU and the D.C. types fear is that when you hamstring the police and the left starts beating and killing those who disagree with them, the rightwing militias might (will) step in where LE can't or won't. That is YOUR fear. Deal with it or stop trying to defund or hamstring LE.

Quote:I don’t believe peaceful protesters should be defined by the actions of those responsible for looting, setting fires and destroying property.

If those protesters are indeed peaceful and don't want their movement tarnished by those initiating chaos and violence, there is an easy solution - turn them in to police or kick them out of your protest. If you don't then you own it, as well. We've all seen plenty of video from BLM marchers cheering on the destruction and violence. Don't assume that we are all as gullible and foolish as yourself, a supposed columnist.

Quote:I don’t believe President Donald Trump or his allies at Fox News will do a thing to make a distinction between the two, because they benefit from videos of looting and destruction.

Trump had said early on in the disturbances that there was a difference btw the protesters and rioters. As things have progressed, it is obvious that there is NOW little distinction btw BLM and Antifa as both have engaged in destruction and violence. During the day there may be some actual peaceful protesters. They give way to the anarchists at night. Your statement right there shows you have terminal TDS, so I know where you are coming from and I won't listen to your point of view because you are brain damaged. This is you trying to throw blame onto the side that opposes the chaos and off of those actually perpetuating it. You have not listened AT ALL, because both Trump and Fox have made that distinction btw protestors and rioters many times.

YOU are just another liberal apologist trying to throw blame on those not involved. We've heard it before and constantly. The public largely isn't as stupid as you assume. They know who this belongs to and they can see when you omit facts that are inconvenient. You are just trying to deflect blame because you know and fear that this is hurting Biden and the democrats.

Pieces like this just make my blood boil because there are soft headed people that read this tripe and will buy it.

Rittenhouse would not have been resisting arrest. His actions completely prove that.

A writer from that liberal utopia of Chicago criticizing how things are done in another city. This idiot needs to get down off his soapbox and start fixing some of the problems in his own town. 55 shot, 10 fatality in his Progressive Paradise this past weekend.

There are NO peaceful protestors. Those people showed up in June and are staying away from the criminals out now.

(08-31-2020 02:18 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Rittenhouse would not have been resisting arrest. His actions completely prove that.

He wouldn't have had a warrant out for his arrest also. Blake was committing suicide by cop and failed at that too. Just like everything else in his life.

He's wrong when he says Blake wouldn't have been shot of he was white. Police kill more unarmed whites than unarmed blacks. The MSM just doesn't care when it happens.