I doubted Jussie Smollett. It breaks my heart that I might be right.

Washington Post ^ | February 17, 2019 | Nana Efua Mumford

[Fungi]

“Breaks your heart?” Good, and be gone, leftist idiot.

[Califreak]

He let down everyone in the racial grievance industry.

[Tenacious 1]

Smollett would be the first example skeptics cite when they say we should be dubious of victims who step forward to share their experiences of racist hate crimes or sexual violence.

I don't know about the "first example" we will cite. It's just the latest. Wake up, liberal. Ya'll fake this crap and try to frame your hatred all the time.

[SkyDancer]

It’s always jump to conclusions for them. You would think they would have learned by now but nope.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Why doesn't FR have a "like" button so I don't have to post my agreement?"

Good point. For an economy-minded website, it would save a lot of bandwidth.

[atc23]

It reads like a Yelp review. Who authorized this high school paper article to be printed, the night valet parking attendant?

[Scrambler Bob]

I doubted Juicy Smellit, and I was right.

[Flaming Conservative]

She DIDN’T want to believe him, for all the wrong reasons, and she WANTED to believe him for all the wrong reasons. And she evidently thinks that backwards reasoning was right, so...apparently, even if it was a hoax, it was cool, cause it showed what we terrible MAGA people WOULD have done, if we’d thought of it...or something...

[Vendome]

“I know that there is a deep, dark racist history in Chicago...”

Lincoln owned slaves and The Southern States were outraged by his duplicitous stance..../S

[Spok]

So many on the left realize how foolish and tenuous their stated beliefs are, subconsciously. They long for vindication out of a deeply felt insecurity. You can not live saturated in blatant lies without qualms and doubts. They lack conviction.

[tflabo]

Yeh what about all the other black on black violence in ‘racist Chicago’? She’s having trouble with truth and reality. Liberalism mental disorder on display.

[Steve_Seattle]

"It’s always jump to conclusions for them. You would think they would have learned by now but nope."

Especially right on the heels of the Covington student fiasco.

[cnsmom]

Hillary Clinton started the name calling. The MSM ignored her super predator comment which I felt made her truely deplorable in the worst way.

[Blood of Tyrants]

They wanted it to be true because they believe all Trump supporters are racists and gay haters.

[Fai Mao]

“Why? “

Virtue signaling.

The author wanted to experience the emotional thrill of being outraged.

[Steve_Seattle]

The claim that Trump’s election has unleashed a wave of anti-gay violence was always lacking in evidence, so the evidence had to be manufactured.

[SpaceBar]

The Smollet story didn’t pass the smell test the day it broke.

[donna]

It's hard for this black woman to understand; but, as a white woman, I don't think about black people much at all.

If she could understand most white people's lack of interest, she would be . . . insulted, I guess.

I just don't think about it until I'm accused of being racist and then I feel helpless to do anything about it. All I am is ignorant and uncaring.

[Kudsman]

Indeed. I’ll go that pundit one further. There are whole industries completely dependent on it.

[tinyowl]

"A hate crime did take place."

That's exactly right.