The far-right darling is accused of leaving his mom and sister high and dry as they fight eviction.
Kyle Rittenhouse has been publicly dragged by his own family, who say the far-right darling has left them high and dry as his mother and sister brace for eviction from their home.
Faith, Kyle’s sister, put out a desperate plea for help on May 29, setting up a GoFundMe to help fight their eviction notice.
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“With my brother’s unwillingness to provide support or contribute to our family, we’ve been left to navigate this journey on our own,” she added.
Her family has “exhausted every resource available to us,” she wrote, and “time is running out.”
“When I was in the hospital we tried to like talk to my brother, we tried to like to tell his lawyer to tell like my brother like I was maybe needing surgery or like I was in the hospital, I never heard from him,” Faith told viewers of the V-Radio podcast.
I’m going to go ahead and post my hot take: I hate that these people are facing eviction and that they’re faced with crippling medical debt caused by chronic illness and frequent hospitalization. I don’t like these people. I don’t agree with their beliefs. I think Kyle Rittenhouse did something unforgivably terrible and that his family likely enabled him and his actions. But I also don’t want them to be homeless or to have to deal with medical debt, because those are things that I believe our society should guarantee, as inalienable rights, that no one, regardless of how odious they or their family might be, should have to endure. And I don’t care that they (probably) believe differently.
This is what separates people like us from people like them: empathy
I think what people believe is more a matter of environment, exposure, and upbringing. The Rittenhouses are victims of an ideology that they internalized because they were, in some very real way, made to internalize it. It doesn’t benefit them and it exists purely to support systems of power that actively disenfranchise them and people like them. And “our” ideologies, however similar or different your beliefs and mine might be, are just as much a product of environment and conditioning. I’m not entirely sure I can draw the exact line where a society’s failure of its own people stops and personal accountability begins when it’s tied so intimately to how an individual believes the world is and should be.
I think you’re right. I also think that’s the real reason some conservatives hate college and cities. Living in close proximity to others exposes you to different perspectives, and (hopefully) teaches you that other points of view aren’t automatically wrong. Different isn’t necessarily bad. Your parents, and the values you grew up with, don’t have the solution to everything. Lines are much harder to draw.
The liberal urge to donate to people who are literally and unapologetically trying to fucking shoot you
Okay, I did laugh, but I have to point out that there are people caught in the middle. A lot of folks, no how loudly they yell, or how many flags they burn on TV, don’t actually want to kill anybody. They just want to live. They just want to take care of their families. That’s who liberals are trying to help.
Us vs them… At least we can all agree on othering people we disagree with
I don’t like it either, but pretending differences don’t exist won’t make those differences go away.
People we disagree with isn’t the same as people who lack a quality that’s necessary for society. That’s not a disagreement
Thank you. I couldn’t quite nail down what was fundamentally bothering me about that statement, but you did it for me!
Honestly, same here. I despise what they enabled, and continue to enable. I also despise that they’re facing homelessness and serious healthcare issues because nobody should have to face that, regardless of how repugnant I might find their beliefs and actions. I honestly hope that they manage to get out from under this and continue to live long, healthy, and happy lives, because I believe that everyone SHOULD have these things.
I’m not as good a person as you, and I’m sorry. I accept them losing their house as long as it’s to someone better. Odds are that’s happening.
This is the best response I’ve seen.
“Involved in a tragic shooting…” Like he wasn’t the one doing the shooting 💀
Remember when one of the idiots who participated in his defense came out and said that he fucked up a full ride scholarship to go be a right wing talking head for Turning Point, and called him an antagonistic arrogant dumbass who couldn’t score high enough on his ASVAB to live out his dream of murdering minorities legally overseas?
How the fuck does someone who does that poorly on the ASVAB get a full ride scholarship?
Maybe it wasn’t a scholarship I don’t remember all the details, just that he had the opportunity to go to college all expenses paid through some means… It was my assumption that the “scholarship” was just some right wing organization issuing him something to make him seem like less of a vicious moron with no future prospects for the trial.
Maybe it was skolczarshep
Republican donor groups fell over themselves to prop this guy up as some right-wing hero. I wouldn’t be surprised if one of them decided to send him to college on a full ride so that they could continue to point to him in the future as someone who went on to make a success of themselves rather than continue to prove to the world that he’s a vicious idiot with no prospects in life.
You raised an asshole. You pay the price.
Sorry, but this is just plain evil. And we’re talking about his sister here who should be considered blameless.
I understand that this isn’t about being rational, but being outraged.
This is not about outrage. This is about consequences of ones deeds.
And since when is “sister” not family? Didn’t she care growing up with a racist brother?
Yeah she should’ve slit his throat when they were in grade school if she didn’t want to be judged for…checks notes…having a brother.
You have no idea what the mom or sister did or did not do growing up or what Kyle was like. Again, it’s not about being rational, it’s about being outraged.
Nature vs nurture. How much is it the parents’ fault?
I don’t think that racism and hate is “nature” thing at all. And his guns did not grow on trees, either.
when they arm the little shit heads, it’s their fault entirely
True true.
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wonder if mom regrets buying her child a battle rifle so he could go murder innocents.
Here I was thinking maybe I’d throw them a bone, maybe they were trying to be decent people that his public image and association made life difficult for them. No. Of course not. They just wanted his fame to bring them money. They are who they are.
Asshole who raised an asshole complains about asshole behavior from said asshole.
Damn who could have seen that coming…
Is there some story I missed about his family being assholes?
Conservative enablers become collateral damage of conservatives being conservatives…more at 11.
Also if you’ve never seen the Rittenhouse family they all appear to have iqs below 85 or so.
Look at the sisters quote here…like…uh…like Kyle …like never helped us …like even like for my like surgery like …like like like
This is the result of raising a leopard. Should had cut him loose.
or maybe Mom shouldn’t have paid for his RIFLE
God, reading that quote from the sister gave me braindamage. How many 'like’s can you use before the entire sentence is incomprehensible?
Reading the word as ‘um’ or ‘uh’ in a sentence makes it easier to read. I think a proper editor of the commentary would have truncated excessive ‘like’ use as they would a stammer.
It’s honestly unkind to include it in the quote from her. Written down, it is seriously hard to read. But spoken aloud, your brain will filter “filler words” like that out without needing to think too hard about it.
The party of family values, ladies and gentlemen.
Looks like they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Thoughts and prayers
I hope he desperately needs their sympathy and compassion someday.
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