{"id":1042626,"date":"2021-11-22T04:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1042626"},"modified":"2021-11-22T04:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T09:28:46","slug":"west-side-story-star-rachel-zegler-rittenhouse-verdict-the-epitome-of-white-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-side-story-star-rachel-zegler-rittenhouse-verdict-the-epitome-of-white-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;West Side Story&#039; Star Rachel Zegler: Rittenhouse Verdict &#039;the\u00a0Epitome of White Privilege&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwest-side-story-star-rachel-zegler-rittenhouse-verdict-the-epitome-of-white-privilege%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1042626&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Actress Rachel Zegler, the star of Steven Spielberg\u2019s upcoming remake of <em>West Side Story<\/em>, says the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial \u201cis the&nbsp;epitome of white privilege\u201d and an indictment of the United States as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[K]yle rittenhouse being acquitted on all charges after such heinous heinous crimes is the epitome of white privilege and exactly what is wrong with this godforsaken country,\u201d&nbsp;Zegler wrote Friday on social media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3598326359833\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">kyle rittenhouse being acquitted on all charges after such heinous heinous crimes is the epitome of white privilege and exactly what is wrong with this godforsaken country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 rachel zegler (she\/her\/hers) (@rachelzegler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rachelzegler\/status\/1461772806958551041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>About an hour before her tweet, the&nbsp;Kyle Rittenhouse trial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/law-and-order\/2021\/11\/19\/verdict-kyle-rittenhouse-found-not-guilty-on-all-charges\/\">came to a close<\/a> after a jury in&nbsp;Kenosha, Wisconsin, found the 18-year-old not guilty of all charges.<\/p>\n<p>As the news Rittenhouse\u2019s innocence was announced,&nbsp;leftists across social media had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/11\/19\/leftists-suffer-social-media-meltdown-over-kyle-rittenhouse-not-guilty-verdict\/\">collective meltdown<\/a>.&nbsp;Zegler joins the many Hollywood celebrities and elites who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/11\/11\/hollywood-elites-attack-kyle-rittenhouse-fck-that-kid-terrible-fking-actor\/\">piled on<\/a>&nbsp;Rittenhouse in the aftermath of the verdict.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18851706\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/west-side-story-2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18851706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/west-side-story-2021.jpg\" alt width=\"1683\" height=\"947\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A still from \u201cWest Side Story\u201d (2021). Disney \/ 20th Century Studios<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Like&nbsp;Zegler, many of the celebrities oddly claimed&nbsp;Rittenhouse&nbsp;is benefitting from \u201cwhite\u201d male \u201cprivilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf [Rittenhouse] weren\u2019t white, he probably wouldn\u2019t be on trial. Because he\u2019d be dead,\u201d proclaimed&nbsp;ABC\u2019s <em>Designated Survivor<\/em> writer Pat Cunnane also focused on Rittenhouse\u2019s skin color.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.153024911032\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don\u2019t know if Kyle Rittenhouse was fake crying. <\/p>\n<p>I do know that he crossed state lines and shot three people, killing two of them. <\/p>\n<p>I also know that if he weren\u2019t white, he probably wouldn\u2019t be on trial. Because he\u2019d be dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pat Cunnane (@PatCunnane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatCunnane\/status\/1458490037264334851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These comments honing in on skin color are especially bizarre, given that the law in the United States does not specify that only white men have a right to self-defense when they&nbsp;reasonably believe there is an imminent threat of harm.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day of Rittenhouse\u2019s&nbsp;acquittal,&nbsp;for example,&nbsp;another young man \u2014 who is black \u2014 claiming he fired&nbsp;a gun in self-defense was also found not guilty of murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Gifford man who claimed he was defending himself and his girlfriend when he fired shots at deputies during an early-morning raid in 2017 was acquitted Friday of charges that carried a life prison term,\u201d TC Palm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/news\/crime\/indian-river-county\/2021\/11\/19\/andrew-coffee-iv-cleared-murder-charge-2017-alteria-woods-death\/8651720002\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA jury found Andrew \u2018A.J.\u2019 Coffee IV, 27, not guilty of second-degree felony murder, three counts of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer by discharging a firearm and one count of shooting or throwing a deadly missile,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\/\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Rachel Zegler, the star of Steven Spielberg\u2019s upcoming remake of West Side Story, says the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial \u201cis the\u00a0epitome of white privilege\u201d and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}