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

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

[EdnaMode]

[snip]

I wanted to believe Smollett. I really did. I know that there is a deep, dark racist history in Chicago and, if proved true, this would be just one more point on the list. I wanted to believe him with every fiber of my being, most of all because the consequences if he were lying were almost too awful to contemplate.

And yet I struggled with Smollett’s story.

I tried telling myself that it is possible that two assailants were walking around downtown Chicago at 2 a.m. in January in 10-degree weather, waiting for a black victim. In addition to that, they were stalking around with a bottle of bleach and a rope. And ultimately, the prey they selected was an actor on a show that they must’ve been somewhat familiar with, because they were able to not only name the show but also know that he played a gay character. Never mind the fact that he was likely bundled up because again: Chicago, January, 10 degrees. Also, after he fought to get away, he left the rope around his neck until he got to the hospital.

Perhaps I don’t want to believe him because this is a stark and scary reminder of the poor condition of the country (and city) that I call home. Maybe this story makes the boogeyman in my nightmares all too real, too close and too calculating. Maybe it’s because while I consider myself an ally to the LGBTQ community, I still don’t understand and appreciate the daily harassment that they endure. Or maybe even though I am a black woman, I still don’t know what it’s like to be a black man in America.

[Alberta's Child]

I dunno. I think the left is so done with that guy. He’s the type who gives black sodomites a bad name.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Victimhood is very, very supreme.

This is why Kamala nor Michelle may be the 2020 Dem nominee

The Dems will eat each other up and they will have to look for a compromise candidate if they want to

[Intolerant in NJ]

I know that there is a deep, dark racist history in Chicago...gee - and could it be that that deep dark history is as much a falsehood as the Smollett story - thousands of morally superior liberals would loose their purpose for living.......

[EdnaMode]

It certainly is.

[a little elbow grease]

"I wanted to believe Smollett. I really did." Why? -------------

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Because the writer and the others unknowingly want their SICKNESS nurtured.

[Liz]

Victimhood is a powerful narcotic. It is extremely valuable in modern America. Since the left came up with the idea of victim groups,
it has not been necessary to endure any actual unpleasantness to acquire victim status.
Victims can get away with murder. They are forgiven all their sins.

Great deconstruction. The motto is "Pay-Me-I'm-A-Victim."

[shanover]

The left is truly sick and insane.

[EdnaMode]

Haha. This always makes me laugh. :D

[P-Marlowe]

Amazingly this is not Satire. I just reads like satire.

[atc23]

I dunno. I think the left is so done with that guy. He’s the type who gives black sodomites a bad name.

- unless you’re the type who wants to see the president re-elected in 2020 because in that case he and AOC and faggy Corey Vegan and Heels Harris and demented Polident Pelosi are the geese that lays the golden eggs

[a little elbow grease]

I wish that you were totally correct..... but you are not.

___________

You wrote: "A hate crime did take place. The fake legacy media inciting hate against anything Trump or white or Traditional American values." ---- that is true

"They don’t investigate, they don’t look into, they do not try anything fair or balanced. They report every rumor, lie and innuendo as FACT in a desperate attempt to DESTROY Trump and his supporters." ----- that is also very true.

"The media today (with a few small exceptions) are nothing more than the propaganda arm of the democrat party." ---- they are ALSO the propaganda, indoctrination arm also of the "one worlders" and the group who wish to tear down America, and that group is larger than the Democrat party.

You wrote: "The irony is - they have destroyed themselves. They are out in the open. Everyone sees them for what they are." ---- They are exposing themselves .... but far from "everyone sees them for what they are".

You wrote, "And no one trusts them." ---- That is completely wrong. Why do you suppose that so many elections in Congress were won by Democrats in '18? Why do so many Americans still believe the BS that comes from NBC, CNN, SeeBS, ABC, etc.? It is because their CONSTANT, REPEATED lies, and outright avoidance/non-coverage of REAL STORIES works on uninformed voters. And trust me, a great percentage of ignorant "citizens" know little or nothing of the truth because they believe what they are repeatedly told and not told.

There is a long way to go before you can proclaim, " no one trusts them".

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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie."

[DadOfFive]

This was my tweet today in reply to one from James Woods:

I predict this will be downplayed as another #FakeButAccurate story which COULD happen in DJT’s America. paging #DanRather. #CraftyBeaver

It got a lot of agreement.

[LeonardFMason]

Where is the MEGA Barf Alert!?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#2. Stupid is as stupid does.

[fieldmarshaldj]

And extraordinarily lucrative for the Demonrat Party.

[wardaddy]

I hate to say that your username simply does not ring a bell with me right out of the gate but buddy that post was right on the money and you said it in a way better that I could have

...::there is something in the American psyche today where people yearn to be a victim based on race or sexual orientation or to be the accuser of such bigotry because I think it makes people feel superior or worthy ...it’s a sickness like an ergot plague was in the early Middle Ages

It makes no sense really that the predominate culture and a nation would tolerate such an onslaught from within...I feel like we will collapse eventually like Easter Islanders from our own excess of stupidity

[adorno]

The Jussie Smullet fabricated attack is a complete hoax, but, it is still full of facts.

Ask democrats how that works, when they’ve been telling us for more than 2 years that, even if the fake GPS dossier on Trump/Russia collusion was fabricated, it’s still full of facts that can’t be rebutted.

[nopardons]

Of course I know all about Aimee S. McP! :-)

There's a HUGE difference between someone faking their death and then lying about being kidnapped and what Jussie and his 2 Nigerian "friends" are/were up to!

OTOH, yes, I called all of those involved in your query "CREEPS" and worse!

But this HOAX smacks of politics, anti-white, anti-Trump supporters, and yes, even anti-Chicago garbage, whereas Aimee's lies were a cover-up for a sexual adventure that would have harmed her reputation far MORE than it all just being a HOAX did.

[The Antiyuppie]

“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.

It MIGHT be patented and no, I’m not kidding.

[The Antiyuppie]

Remember when we all laughed at “fake, but accurate”?

This is now a journalistic standard.