Kyle Rittenhouse 
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SOURCE: Salon
11/23/2021
Does Rittenhouse Show America's Crossed a Rubicon?
by Jim Sleeper
Do those applauding Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal understand the chaos that could be unleashed when (not if) armed vigilante squads feel invited to show up not just at protests but at polling places?
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SOURCE: Editorial Board
11/15/2021
Rittenhouse's Defense is Trying to Connect to a Long History of State Support for White Vigilantism
by Mia Brett
Police tolerance and even encouragement of the presence of Kyle Rittenhouse and other vigilantes on the streets of Kenosha in August 2020 was no anomaly.
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11/15/2021
Historians on the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial
As Kyle Rittenhouse's trial advances to jury deliberation, historians weigh in.
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11/11/2021
Kyle's Tears
by Joe Lowndes
Kyle Rittenhouse's demeanor at trial shows the difficulty of his case; he presents a figure that normalizes and sanitizes the violent core of the vigilante movement he represents.
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SOURCE: Gawker
11/16/2021
Kyle Rittenhouse is an American
by Patrick Blanchfield
"The impulse to reconstruct that night’s chaos as though watching a 21st century Rashomon, is a trap."
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11/14/2021
Kyle Rittenhouse's Trial Will End in a Verdict. The Nation's Trial By Ordeal Won't
by Thomas Lecaque
"A trial by ordeal was not about miracles or superstition. It was, in effect, about the community making a decision on the innocence or guilt of the party, and then bringing it about." Kyle Rittenhouse's trial prompts an uncomfortable reckoning with the continuity of some medieval practices of justice.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/4/2021
In Rittenhouse Trial, Language Matters
by Felicia Angeja Viator
Kyle Rittenhouse's trial evokes the 1943 "Zoot Suit Riots," when white vigilantes, including uniformed servicemen, beat Mexican American youth in Los Angeles and other cities. The courts contributed to exonerating the vigilantes by repeating the language of a moral panic that characterized the victims as "gangsters" and hoodlums.
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SOURCE: CNN
2/5/2021
What Kyle Rittenhouse's Fate Reveals about Law and Order
by Nicole Hemmer
Historically, white vigilantism, especially against the demands of minorities for civil and economic equality, has been a key component of the politics of "law and order."
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