Left-leaning student organizations at ASU are demanding that the administration “pull” Kyle Rittenhouse from school.
Rittenhouse was recently acquitted of all charges related to the 2020 shooting that killed two men and wounded another in Wisconsin.
The ruling was criticized by many, including potential classmates of Rittenhouse at Arizona State University.
Some ASU student groups want Kyle Rittenhouse removed.
Arizona State University students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine, the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition, and MECHA de ASU call him a “murderer” and want to prevent him from entering a campus they deem “really unsafe.”
The right-wing icon has been touring around the country, visiting conservatives, sitting down with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and meeting Donald Trump – but now it looks like he just wants to learn new things and live his life.
Rittenhouse is enrolled in online nursing classes at the university, but is not actually pursuing a degree, according to some research by 12News.
“Kyle Rittenhouse did not go through the admissions process with Arizona State University and did not attend the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation,” the university said.
“Arizona State University can confirm that Mr. Rittenhouse has enrolled as a non-degree student at ASU online for the session beginning October 13, 2021, which allows students access to begin attending classes while they prepare to apply for admission to a program for the A degree at the university.”
Apart from removing Rittenhouse, student organizations made 3 other demands, and also asked the administration to make statements denigrating white supremacy and racism, support the school’s multicultural center with funds and make it safe from white supremacy.
They organized a rally on December 1 with the goal of trying to help their cause get Rittenhouse off their campus, despite him being an online student living in Illinois.
“Even with a verdict of acquittal from the flawed ‘Justice’ system – Kyle Rittenhouse remains guilty of his victims and the families of those victims,” the request letter read. “Join us in asking ASU to meet these demands to protect students from a violent, bloodthirsty killer.”
Although Arizona has historically been right-leaning and conservative, ASU is relatively left-leaning. Several surveys show that liberal students outnumber conservative students while moderates match the left-leaning group.
The groups claimed Rittenhouse was a “mass shooter,” although mass shootings are generally defined as shootings with four or more victims—Kinosha’s shooting included only three.
They also claimed that the campus was indeed unsafe, but did not go into detail on this point.
Should Kyle Rittenhouse be allowed to attend ASU?
While it is perfectly acceptable that Rittenhouse’s case was a failure and that his acquittal should not have occurred, it is also unfair to target Rittenhaus and deny him the right to an education – denying people their rights is not what the Left should stand for.
Hate him as much as you like, but he deserves to be educated like everyone else. His life shouldn’t be ruined just because he took two more people.
If anything, people should be pleased with his desire for education because while he may have killed two people and offered as an alternative amulet to the oath, education would mean that he might get rid of some of that ignorance and change his ways.
Tucker has already told Carlson that his trial has nothing to do with race and everything to do with self-defense – It even supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
It has been widely debated that the educational gap in the United States is what drove Trump to the White House in the first place, and according to Pew Research Center statistics, more college graduates voted blue than non-graduates who voted red.
According to more Pew Research Center statistics, college graduates are more likely to tend to be liberal, so who knows what might happen during a Rittenhouse College experience.
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