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What the Jussie Smollett Story Reveals: A peculiar aspect of 21st-century America: victimhood chic
The Atlantic ^ | February 20, 2019 | John McWorter

Posted on 02/20/2019 2:52:58 PM PST by billorites

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1 posted on 02/20/2019 2:52:58 PM PST by billorites
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


2 posted on 02/20/2019 2:53:41 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
Ha Ha Ha!

Thank you for the ping my friend.

When I think "Skeptical of the Liberal narrative" I think "The Atlantic"!

3 posted on 02/20/2019 2:57:46 PM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: billorites

I’m waiting for the slow motion car chase in a white Ford Bronco. All the way north to Canada.


4 posted on 02/20/2019 2:58:40 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: billorites

LOL!


5 posted on 02/20/2019 3:02:15 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: billorites
The Atlantic looks down from its lofty perch and notices something that conservatives have been aware of and commenting on for at least ten years.
6 posted on 02/20/2019 3:03:32 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: billorites
VICTIMHOODLUMS!
7 posted on 02/20/2019 3:03:46 PM PST by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: billorites
the role of victim as a form of status.

race card + victim card + self pity card + oppression card + blame game = leftardism

8 posted on 02/20/2019 3:08:49 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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We are also just past watching legions of people who should have known better refuse to credit Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Hunh? What credit was "Dr." Blasey-Ford deserving of?

So why in the world would he fake something like that attack—if he did indeed fake it?

The reasons are legion, one of which might well be to promote his BFF Kamala's anti-lynching bill.

Racial politics today have become a kind of religion in which whites grapple with the original sin of privilege, converts tar questioners of the orthodoxy as “problematic” blasphemers, and everyone looks forward to a judgment day when America “comes to terms” with race.

This sentence, and its revelation, falls apart with the phrase propounding white privilege. Only in academia, the press and leftist politics is this an issue among 'white' people. The 'white' people don't have time to digest and expel the privilege nonsense.

9 posted on 02/20/2019 3:11:59 PM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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To: outofsalt
Did you miss the chase scene?


10 posted on 02/20/2019 3:16:13 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: billorites

It was all just rehearsal for an upcoming role in a block buster movie. Sorry, we should have let someone know. It’s all good, no harm, no foul.


11 posted on 02/20/2019 3:16:22 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: billorites
We are also just past watching legions of people who should have known better refuse to credit Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Among those who refused to credit the accusation were Ford's supposed witnesses at the infamous party. Should they have known better?

12 posted on 02/20/2019 3:16:54 PM PST by TChad
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13 posted on 02/20/2019 3:18:01 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (A.D. 636 Jerusalem Falls To Islam, A.D. 642 Christian Egypt Is Lost To Islam)
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Strange fruit indeed.


14 posted on 02/20/2019 3:20:37 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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10-degree weather? I believe it was -10 degree weather. The difference is significant.


15 posted on 02/20/2019 3:23:59 PM PST by Rocky
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"10-degree weather? I believe it was -10 degree weather."

Either way, nippy for the Nigerians.

16 posted on 02/20/2019 3:31:47 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Future historians and anthropologists will find this aspect of early-21st-century America peculiar, intriguing, and sad.

Hopefully, the fabians will rightfully wear the blame like a noose.

17 posted on 02/20/2019 3:33:27 PM PST by Kudsman (If it smells like hoax, quacks like a hoax, itÂ’s probably a Democratic hoax.)
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>>So why in the world would he fake something like that attack—if he did indeed fake it?

>The reasons are legion, one of which might well be to promote his BFF Kamala's anti-lynching bill.

That was a rhetorical question that he asks in order to give an answer.

His answer is "The reason might be that he has come of age in an era when nothing he could have done or said would have made him look more interesting than being attacked on the basis of his color and sexual orientation." Which is a pretty good answer which gives people something to think about.

>>Racial politics today have become a kind of religion in which whites grapple with the original sin of privilege, converts tar questioners of the orthodoxy as “problematic” blasphemers, and everyone looks forward to a judgment day when America “comes to terms” with race.

>This sentence, and its revelation, falls apart with the phrase propounding white privilege.

Once again, that's not necessarily his opinion. That's his description of what a lot of people think.

If you read something like this: "We are noble in our suffering." It's not necessarily the author's opinion. He's trying to describe what some African-Americans think nowadays.

His article may not "fall apart" so quickly if you read it with more care.

18 posted on 02/20/2019 3:38:14 PM PST by x
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Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield explains why lefties fell for the Smollett hoax:
“The left is a 'victimhood' cult. Lefties feed off pain, and 'fetishizes' suffering as a commodity .....in exchange for political power.”

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Moreover, feasting on racism, bigotry, homophobia, makes the left "feel good" about themselves.

Particularly in Hollywood's environs where self-hatred is huge......due to the repeated acts of self-immolation
they are compelled to engage in, to compete for a good part.

19 posted on 02/20/2019 4:05:38 PM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Not sure but perhaps liberal elites like those who write for the Atlantic are having an awakening, and that society has had enough of the fake pretend liberal PC BS.

It is only a trickle now but that’s how floods begin. Trump’s candor followed by exposure of truth and many fabrications and those like Laura Logan, Sheryll Attkisson, etc interested in exposing truth. In the end truth will overcome and PC lies will become offensive.


20 posted on 02/20/2019 4:40:06 PM PST by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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