The Rittenhouse defense attempts to light the fuse

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27. It's certainly been useful for school

Was talking with my social psychology professor after class yesterday. This semester, we've been spending a lot of time on the polarization in the country, why it's happening, how identity is supplanting traditional forms of tribalism with the rise of social media. People believing narratives over facts has been a bugaboo of mine for ages, so I've just been mining the deep, rich veins of all this for class material.

I'm an AOC style progressive, and my professor is pretty much a hippie, and we were both talking about how absolutely insane the disconnect between the facts and the narrative has been in all of this.

How this story has been portrayed in the mainstream and social media and what we're seeing at the actual trial almost have no relation to each other.