I realize this is bait but I'll bite: Rittenhouse and Rosenbaum are not heroes. Taking up arms for what you believe in is not inherently heroic, and is often quite the opposite. Either of them would gladly see the country burn for their preferred ideology to succeed, which is not heroic. Likewise, not every soldier who goes off to fight in a war is a hero.
And also, is George Floyd a hero? Yes, he died in an absolutely tragic and horrific manner. His death cast a bright light on problems of racism and iniquity that have existed for hundreds of years. But did he at any point actually do anything heroic? That Derek Chauvin was obviously the villain in that story doesn't necessarily make Floyd a hero.
We can appreciate the important Focus the George Floyd case brought to police brutality without wrongly referring to Floyd as a hero. The people who channeled the outrage into the largely peaceful Nationwide BLM movement are the real heroes.
And it's the exact same thing can be said about Rodney King, FYI. Yes, he and Floyd were both kind of Shifty dudes, but who in no manner shape or form deserved what happened to them, and despite their personal shortcomings reflected the threats African American men wrongly undergo every day in this country from police.
