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Kyle Rittenhouse was set to headline a patriot rally at the Woodlands Inn & Resort in Pennsylvania until the community stepped in and said: absolutely not.
After calls, emails, and serious backlash from locals who didnt want their town hosting a guy whose entire brand is killing two people at a BLM protest, the venue pulled the plug and canceled the event.
The right is already screaming censorship and woke mob, but heres the truth:
This isnt government silencing speech. This is a private business and a local community deciding they dont want to normalize political violence for clout and ticket sales.
In this video I break down:
What actually happened with the canceled Kyle Rittenhouse event
Why this is free association and consequences, not a First Amendment violation
How the local GOP tried to distance themselves once it got messy
What it says about the modern right that this is one of their folk heroes
Why more communities should be drawing this exact line
If your movement needs a vigilante who killed protesters as one of its star speakers, youve already lost the moral argument.
2naSalit
(99,066 posts)Wiz Imp
(8,291 posts)The county where this resort is located gave Trump 59% of the vote. 5 of the 7 bordering counties voted Trump by even bigger margins (65% or more). The other 2 counties were basically 50-50 counties. So there's no real strong Democratic base anywhere near there, and even the right wingers who make up the population of the area didn't want Rittenhouse there.
no_hypocrisy
(53,843 posts)While this is a pretty conservative area, having Rittenhouse come to stir the pot isn't good for business.
The area is struggling to survive. A lot of businesses have left downtown (Boscov's is still there) and have moved to the highway(s). They depend upon customers driving in from other places to shop.
Rittenhouse is a taint upon them and the fear is that the customers would just as soon shop elsewhere. He won't attract MAGA to give profits to those businesses.
At least, that's what I think.