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Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict: Not Surprising At All

Image: Sean Krajacic via Getty Images On Friday, November 19th, Kyle Rittenhouse, who stood accused of shooting three people, killing two at a BLM protest last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was found not guilty on every charge against him. I would say I'm shocked but then I'd be lying. I was a kid when I first saw The Empire Strikes Back. Even in the days of the 1980s, the big revelation that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father was no secret to me. I had a friend who blabbed much of the details of the trilogy. But the revelation was so wide spread that even at the time, it was so embedded in pop culture that it was more likely that far more people knew of the reveal than those that didn't. Still, hearing Darth Vader say "Luke, I am your father," was more of an eye raising moment for me than finding out that Rittenhouse would walk free after he murdered two people. Somehow, fiction manged, even in a spoiled form, to get more of a reaction out of me than reali