Rittenhouse Is How You Get Nazis
When judges support killing in the streets, you get killing in the streets
History is repeating itself with the farce of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Rittenhouse gunned down protestors in cold blood, but the judge banned even using the word ‘victims’. The judge’s cell phone goes off in court, playing a Trump rally ringtone. He makes racist jokes about Asians. It’s a smorgasbord of why Critical Race Theory exists in the first place, to examine the legal structures of racism. Well, here they are, in plain sight.
This oppression is nothing new in America, where white people have been deputized to put down slave rebellions for centuries, nor is it new to the world. This is precisely what happened in Weimar Germany before, you know, the Nazis took over. They say that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Here we are then, stuck in the time warp again.
Tragedy
When Germany was hit by a wave of assassinations in 1919, “none of the murderers ever served more than a token sentence, protected as they were by conservative judges and officers and other well-connected members of the establishment” (Weitz, Eric D). As Weitz continued, “the courts were notorious bastions of conservatism that barely prosecuted acts of terror committed by the Right, while…
