Kyle Rittenhouse, American vigilante: After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle

The life of this story rings a bit familiar, but I didn't know to look for the signs until this article. I had a friend make the national news cycle. I won't give any details, but when somebody does something and it makes the news, everybody sees a different story because they want it to match their worldview. My friend was simultaneously a angry snowflake libtard and a raging Trumper in the same comment sections, with everybody casting him as what they felt would be their best boogeyman. I first looked at these articles out of curiosity, but also had a chance to look at online behavior through a different perspective. I also quickly stopped because I didn't want to see the video constantly.

I don't think Rittenhouse's family is lying about who he is at the end. They have no reason to because everything they said puts a black mark against them in the eyes of Rittenhouse's supporters (who mostly won't see the article because of who published it), who I would argue would be better to support, strategically, than the New York Post if they were playing any short game. I think he could be every good thing they described him as, but also a convictable murderer. Humans are complicated, and even his situation is complicated, even if it boils down to "17 year old crossed state lines, carried an illegal gun and shot three people at a protest."

As far as the folks he would have been associating with on his side of the protest, many people simply don't give two shits. In the real world, people who understand how white supremacists organize in the US are few and far between, and people who understand the deeper goals of many militias are even fewer, even in these hectic times. My brother, dad, and I have a hard time and we look for this information to try to avoid being associated with it (we've all had... encounters, my dad, after learning about the Boogaloo, recently donated all of his floral shirts). I am completely willing to say that a lot of the myth of Kyle Rittenhouse doesn't exist. The illegal gun-carrying alleged murderer who supported Trump is the only real part of the narrative.