"You may be an a-hole..."my vent of the day edited OP

Ouch.

ETA hit post too quickly.

I am so sorry that members of your own family are being insensitive. And to the idiot that originally posted that crap, Fuck you! Mean people suck!

The meme is not against gay people.
It's meant to say that if you can understand the trauma of being called by the wrong pronoun on purpose, you should be able to understand the trauma happening in a 17 year old brain that was in a situation where he thought he was going to die and the trauma of having killed 2 people and severely injuring a third.

If you purposely choose to ignore that fact in order to make fun of him, you're no better than someone who refuses to honor your pronouns and who you are as a person.

A situation that he deliberately and calculatedly chose to put himself in. Your take on this is disgusting. 

I think there are a lot of things wrong with that statement. First, the person seems to have very little knowledge and understanding of actual PTSD. Second, Kyle Rittenhouse wasn't protecting himself from murderers. HE was the ONLY ONE that killed someone that day. The wording was inflammatory and I have no reason to believe that wasn't the intent.

I personally can see that being in that situation could cause trauma for Rittenhouse or someone else in that situation, although his mom saying he would get in that situation again and his actions after being let out of jail make me question that.

Did either of the people that he killed murder anyone?

No he didn't.  Your statement is not backed up by the facts.

I'm defending the right to self defense. 

I’m afraid I don’t have advice, but am confused by the use of pronouns you use for your son’s partner. I personally would use she/her etc for anyone who dresses in traditionally women’s clothing. Have you asked your son what pronouns his spouse prefers? 

The original tweet from Steven Crowder never called them murderers. It said:
"If you accuse Kyle Rittenhouse of "faking tears" from being forced to relive the trauma of having to shoot violent, armed child-rapists and arsonists, but claim PTSD from being called the wrong pronouns
...you might be an asshole."

I’m not debating whether or not he is guilty of murder or if it was self-defense. I’m responding to the Inflammatory nature of the post that the OP was referring to. Even if you believe it was self-defense and he is a victim in this situation, it is not true that he killed murderers, and to say that he did Is false and inflammatory. Along with trying to equate this case with gender pronouns.

I'm not taking any side in the Rittenhouse trial. I've seen some pretty asshole memes on both sides.

But what pisses me off about this is that anyone would even compare this to being transgender. No matter what side you stand on the issue of whether it was a murder or self defense, it's dirty to bring innocent people into it. And yeah, you can sit here and try to parse words all you'd like, pixiechick I'm looking at you, but there is no need to make every single issue a comparison to being transgender. It was a slam. And it was intended to be a slam by the "I'm not an asshole" who posted it.

I'd be willing to put my bank account on the line that the person who posted it is a bigot. And chances are this wasn't their first meme to that effect. It's amazing the number of people I've just watched creep right out of the woodwork with slams against being transgender since my own child has come out. People are cruel.

I'm willing to bet all my money that that person in fact, an asshole about gender fluid people. And when called will say, well, but not you...the others... 🙄

That's not really part of this case because the question is did Rittenhouse act in self-defense, but if you want to go there, let's go there.

"at age 19, Rosenbaum was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing five children — all boys between the ages of 9 and 11 — in Arizona’s Pima County in early 2002, according to his case file obtained via a public records request by Snopes.



The documents said Rosenbaum was temporarily living with the boys’ parents after his mother had kicked him out for disobeying her rules about one month earlier. Over the course of his weeks-long stay, Rosenbaum molested the boys, showed them porn, and performed oral sex on them, among other offenses, the documents showed. He was sentenced to prison for roughly 15 years, and authorities believed at the time “his risk to recidivate being of great concern to the community” considering the victims’ gender and age. (Let us note here: The records included an interview with Rosenbaum in which he said his stepfather sexually abused him and his brother on an almost daily basis when he was a preteen.)



Considering that evidence, the claim that Rosenbaum at one point was convicted of sexually abusing at least one child before his death was true."

"Huber, and determined it also accurate to state he was charged with domestic abuse. We uncovered a Kenosha County criminal complaint that outlined his first serious run-in with law enforcement, in December 2012. And per that complaint, Huber, who was 18 years old at the time, threatened his brother and grandmother at their home with a knife, choked the brother, and demanded that they follow his orders. The complaint said the brother wanted to take Huber to a hospital, apparently for emergency mental health help, but Huber resisted. In the end, he was charged with strangulation and suffocation and false imprisonment, both of which are felony crimes.



On another occasion, about three years later, Huber paid a roughly $150 citation or possessing drug paraphernalia, court records showed. Then, in 2018, Huber was charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor offense, after a fight with his sister at their house, per a criminal complaint by Kenosha prosecutors.



But unlike what many Rittenhouse supporters claimed, we could find no court evidence that Huber had sexually assaulted anyone."

"Grosskreutz had not committed a felony crime, our analysis of court records showed.



He was, however, found guilty in 2016 of breaking Wisconsin’s law governing the use of dangerous weapons — a misdemeanor offense — per Milwaukee County court records. He had apparently gone somewhere “armed while intoxicated,” though the court records did not elaborate on what exactly had happened. Snopes requested a copy of the probable cause statement from county records administrators, but we have not yet obtained it.



Additionally, Grosskreutz at various points received tickets for minor offenses including disobeying police officers and making loud noises, the court records showed. However, no evidence showed he had indeed committed burglary, like supporters of the alleged killer claimed, though he had been arrested on suspicion of the crime in 2012. The felony charge was later dismissed, per Wisconsin Department of Justice’s criminal data.



In the interview with CNN, Grosskreutz said he has paid his debt for his past crimes and that he had every right to carry a gun at the Aug. 25 protest. “I’m not a felon,” he said. “I had a legal right to possess and to possess it concealed.”"

www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/11/rittenhouse-victims-records/

But as Snopes points out, "The Victims’ Criminal Past ‘Have No Bearing on Them Being Shot’". 

Yes exactly.

Again, we aren’t debating the case in this thread. We are discussing the meme that OP was quoting.