I can't understand why anyone would want to admit that they're happier to know that a racist, homophobic violent attack took place than that one person told a big lie.
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.So it would be okay knowing that there was a horrible attack because you're so certain that so much more of the same out there?
She says "I need this story to be true," because otherwise people will be dubious of claims of "racist hate crimes or sexual violence" and more likely to buy into the notion that "there is a leftist conspiracy to cast Trump supporters as violent, murderous racists." Ironically, Mumford's column itself bolsters the belief that there's a big effort to misrepresent Trump supporters. She's saying she wants the hateful image of Trump supporters to stick. She was (and still is) hoping for Smollett's story to hold up. She's admitting she is an actively biased recipient of evidence.
In that light, it's interesting to read her crisp summary of how suspicious she was all along:
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....There are over 2,000 comments on this column. The most-up-voted one, by a lot, is:
I'm black, and I and all my black friends doubted this story from the get-go.
A guy who has received death threats goes out alone at 2 a.m. in below-zero temperature because he got the midnight munchies? Nuh-uh. He'd go out with his security team, or send his security guys out to get it for him, or (most likely) have it delivered. This smelled like a hookup gone bad.
Smollett has done incalculable damage. God help the next victim of a real racist attack. Nobody is going to believe him because of this idiot.
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1 – 200 of 202 Newer› Newest»Smollett has done incalculable damage. God help the next victim of a real racist attack. Nobody is going to believe him because of this idiot.
The need for those on the left to continually manufacture hate crime hoaxes strongly suggests that "next victims of a real racist attack" are remarkably few.
So what Mumford is saying is that she is a racist bigot.
If you're going to tell a story as lame as Smollett's, you should probably go all the way and say Donald Trump personally poured the bleach and tied the noose.
I know that there is a deep, dark racist history in Chicago...
No, there isn't.
I grew up south of Chicago and lived in Chicago. The great heroes of my youth in Chicago were Muddy Water and Ernie Banks.
Millions of blacks moved from the deep South to Chicago for good jobs in the factories and mills. What blacks found in Chicago was fantastic opportunity.
Black gang violence has been a plagued in Chicago since the great migration. Blacks are at fault for that.
people ... more likely to buy into the notion that "there is a leftist conspiracy to cast Trump supporters as violent, murderous racists." Ironically, Mumford's column itself bolsters the belief that there's a big effort to misrepresent Trump supporters.
Thank you for this, Professor. Until I read it I hadn’t considered the possibility of a “leftist conspiracy.” Nothing like being assured there isn’t one to make you realize that, probably, there really is.
The author works at Fake News Central and the editors published this. That’s all you need to know about media today.
This was a set up for hired actors to stage a "lynching" event. And this team of crisis actors just happened to know where to say that it happened at the only location without surveillance cameras in downtown Chicago. If you don't believe this was a co-ordinated false flag by the anti-Trump Deep State, then I have a Bridge in Brooklyn for sale cheap for you.
Now matter how low you think the entertainment-media-progressive complex is, they'll go lower.
If the exquisitely named Nana closes her eyes and says “I believe in fairies” three times, Tinkerbell will come back to life.
I am sure that anti-gay, anti-black attacks occur, but are they more numerous than hoaxes? There sure are a lot of hoaxes.
There must be a lot of hate out there. Let’s manufacture some ersatz hate!
Second-most-up-voted comment at WaPo: "The article contains fine sentiments, but the tone is one of sadness. What I don't see is anger at what Smollett apparently did. He committed crimes with the explicit intent of inflaming America's cultural tensions, resentments, and hatred, all for his own personal gain. He should be held accountable for the impacts of his actions."
Everyone that I know knew it was a hoax right away. The only people who fell for it are libs.
It breaks the Washington Post’s heart too. The story fit the chosen narrative, in fact fit it so well that you might have thought it was written to fit the narrative. What a surprise that it was.
Race relations in Chicago have a long and complicated history, but most of the action in Streeterville at 2:00 am is conventioneers being mugged on the way back to their hotels.
This is one of the more curious of many curious applications of "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
If this was a planned and premeditated hoax, designed (apparently) to advance the narrative that Jussie Smollett is an important figure in gay/black victimhood, and got caught doing the hoax, is that "Trump Derangement Syndrome"?
Althouse clearly likes the concept of "Trump Derangement Syndrome," and likes (too much, it seems to me) her "Trump Derangement Syndrome" tag.
But if, say, it applies to Jussie Smollet and Jonah Goldberg or Charlies Sykes or Bill Kristol equally, it sort of ceases to have any meaning.
"Smollett has done incalculable damage. God help the next victim of a real racist attack. Nobody is going to believe him because of this idiot."
I would like to hear at least one of these lefty people lament the fact that "this idiot" falsely tried to smear the generic white male conservative as anti-gay, racist, ambushing reptiles wearing MAGA hats. There is a real set of victims involved in this incident, and it does not include Smollett or any other black or gay person. It's also too late to worry about the affect on people who may be the victims of such a crime in the future. As the comment with 2000 likes indicates, no one believes this type of racist or anti-gay hate crime actually occurs with a frequency that would make it worthy of spending two seconds worrying about.
I can't understand why anyone would want to admit that they're happier to know that a racist, homophobic violent attack took place than that one person told a big lie.
She would've been happier had this hoax (like so many before it) were true because it would've reinforced her Narrative that Trump supporters are violent racist homophobes. Once again, we have a situation (like with the Duke lacrosse hoax) that "the Narrative is right but the facts are wrong."
This narrative business is probably the single largest reason why so much fake news gets printed. Instead of digging to find the facts about something that happened, too many modern journalists search for stories and facts (real or imagined) that support their narrative. They then complain about attacks on the press when their lies are exposed. If they actually did journalism (the old who, what, when, where, how, and why) instead of trying to change the world, they could be trusted. Instead, they're despised by a large percentage of the country as being nothing more than agenda-driven Democrat hacks.
People like Mumford would be happier if the attack were true because it provides more grist for the mill, a way to drive their agenda further down apostates' throats.
She, Smollett, race hustlers like Sharpton, and others like them do as much damage to race relations as any tiny gathering of white supremacists of the KKK marinated variety.
And the "...done incalculable damage. God help the next victim of a real racist attack. Nobody is going to believe him..." ship sailed some time ago. Thank the rapid Trump resistance and their continual braying at the moon for further insuring that that ship is but a speck on the horizon.
He committed crimes with the explicit intent of inflaming America's cultural tensions, resentments, and hatred, all for his own personal gain.
Inflaming America's cultural tensions, resentments and hatreds for gain is the m.o. of the Democratic Party.
The U.S. is incredibly peaceful. The racial and sexual tensions and hatred the media (including Althouse) trumpets are virtually non-existent. It's all clickbait.
Bored people trying to manufacture excitement and controversy so somebody will read their stuff.
Academy Award level spin is that this is still Trump's fault for creating such a threatening atmosphere for gays and Mexicans that Smollet was forced to stage this False Flag.
*rabid Trump resistance
Sheesh.
Whites have lots of experience being called racist when they know they're not, thanks to outcome-based discrimination laws. So it just washes off their backs now.
The problem is for blacks who want it to be a true explanation that they're being discriminated against, who see a hoax as a problem in public relations.
There is probably good money to be made by white people faking hate crimes of choice for needy POCs.
I don't buy the argument that it will make it harder for the real victims. Real victims have real stories that make sense (usually). Humans are endlessly able to judge individual accounts based on their merits.
BUT it is going to start hurting the argument that people who support Trump (or even just don't hate him) are racist. That the red MAGA had is a KKK hood. That men are bad. That's the story all these hoaxes are trying to tell, and the people who are eager to believe them need to start acknowledging their own bigotry.
and more likely to buy into the notion that "there is a leftist conspiracy to cast Trump supporters as violent, murderous racists."
We already know the left is fabricating and lying about President Trump. The entire 'racist' meme is lacking factual substance. All the media has is narrative. No factual examples, just narrative.
Another example of leftist having zero historical moorings? Mathew Shepard anyone????
Maybe people who walk around daily thinking the country is a racist, homophobic, dangerous cesspool should start resting more easily. Trump isn't going to put you in camps. People don't hate other people. Stop trying to stir the country up- and destabilizing people's peace of mind- just so your candidate can win the next election.
NYT Reporter Sad that Events Didn't Confirm her Prejudices.
Is this news? Am I to trust anything she writes about anything?
Bias, messing up a story, whatever. This is simply stupidity. These people aren't very bright and they place themselves on high as moral arbiters.
Althouse Sam...”I can't understand why anyone would want to admit that they're happier to know that a racist, homophobic violent attack took place than that one person told a big lie.”
Can’t get behind the WaPo paywall, but did Mumford at any point decry actual anti-gay violence? In one quote she mentions the incident’s effect on future reporting of “hate crimes and sexual violence”, but nothing specifically about anti-gay violence.
Does Mumford know something about anti-gay violence in the black community that she’s not saying?
Obviously a fake hate crime, from the moment I heard it.
I look forward to the day when more people have a stronger b.s. detector. We desperately need that.
Furthering my comment from 7:08 am...
If Althouse's "Trump Derangement Syndrome is to be applied to editorial assistant/writer Nana Efua Mumford, then perhaps we can agree on when and where "Trump Derangement Syndrome" may be properly applied. And just how far this case is, from other applications of Althouse's tag.
"”I can't understand why anyone would want to admit that they're happier to know that a racist, homophobic violent attack took place than that one person told a big lie.”
Oh, c'mon Althouse. This can't be true. Because that would put you in Inga territory.
When you believe Americans are horrible racist bigots, then find out people have to hire foreigners to commit hate crimes on their behalf.
Chuck, would it make you feel better to call this White Republican Derangement Syndrome?
This is what happens when the demand for hate crimes outstrips the supply.
"Second-most-up-voted comment at WaPo: "The article contains fine sentiments, but the tone is one of sadness. What I don't see is anger at what Smollett apparently did. He committed crimes with the explicit intent of inflaming America's cultural tensions, resentments, and hatred, all for his own personal gain. He should be held accountable for the impacts of his actions."
Well, when you've lost the commentors at WaPo...this won't play well in Peoria.
It's too bad that a modern day Timothy McVeigh can't blow the WaPo off its foundation during working hours. Millions would cheer.
Make that hindreds of millions.
Honestly, the Washington Post Editorial Board spends more time thinking about hate crimes against gay black dudes than any Neo-Nazi group does.
@chuck
Holy cow dude his paid-off Nigerians had to buy generic red hats because they couldn't get any real MAGA hats in downtown Chitown but Smollett still said they yelled 'MAGA country!' during the assault. This is the 'double-secret probation' of TDS, the kind of derangement that literally does live rent free inside someone's head even when they try to purchase the damn thing in real life for a fake hate crime.
traditionalguy said...
Academy Award level spin is that this is still Trump's fault for creating such a threatening atmosphere for gays and Mexicans that Smollet was forced to stage this False Flag
So, Chuck;
would you claim that this is NOT happening?
would you claim that this is NOT Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Jessie's fake hate crime Specifically included Trump's MAGA hats?
So, Chuck;
would you claim that this was NOT happening?
would you claim that this was NOT Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Much as I deplore racist, homophobic attacks, I wouldn't mind seeing Smollett slapped around a little bit.
I've been thinking about the way the cool kids say "Oh, there was a terrorist bomb attack in a London restaurant last night. But we Londoners just kept eating our dinner". It's supposed to indicate, of course, that they aren't frightened by Muslim hatred.
Just once I would like to hear them say, "Oh, Jussie Smollet reported he was attacked last night just down the street. But we Chicagoans just kept eating our dinner"
I mean, they are happy to show they are above being riled up. Can't they just, for once, apply that to events that supposedly include Trump supporters?
Pelosi deleted here 'tweet of support' last night.
Luckily the internet is a series of tubes so we sent out screen-capture mice through the maze, back in time to retrieve those bytes of information. Not too worry.
Holy cow dude his paid-off Nigerians had to buy generic red hats because they couldn't get any real MAGA hats in downtown Chitown
No kidding. Chicago is where Candidate Trump's rally had to be called off because the protests outside were so violent. I was living there when it happened. And all my young peaceful yoga-teaching friends were so excited it was happening. You aren't wearing a MAGA hat in Streeeterville.
Chuck said..
If this was a planned and premeditated hoax, designed (apparently) to advance the narrative that Jussie Smollett is an important figure in gay/black victimhood, and got caught doing the hoax, is that "Trump Derangement Syndrome"?
Althouse clearly likes the concept of "Trump Derangement Syndrome," and likes (too much, it seems to me) her "Trump Derangement Syndrome" tag.
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Dearest Chuck,
Smollett himself framed it as retribution for his many anti-Trump screeds.
“I come really, really hard against 45,” the actor told GMA co-host Robin ... really hard against his administration, and I don't hold my tongue.”
"I can't understand why anyone would want to admit that they're happier to know that a racist, homophobic violent attack took place than that one person told a big lie."
It's not a matter of "wanting to admit". (That is, rather than preferring to discreetly keep one's rather contemptible real feelings to oneself.) It's a matter of people like the writer having passed the point where those who disagree with them stop being fellow citizens, and become the evil enemy that has to be defeated in a Manichean struggle.
What you're reading isn't a study in a person publicly playing out a little vignette about the conflict between honesty and discretion. (They're past all that. Way past reflecting on whether they're engaging in the demonization they're always accusing the enemy of.)
IOW, what's not to understand about the actions of not-terribly-bright, self-righteous zealots flailing around in their limited conceptual world? It's pretty straightforward stuff.
It's nice to see these young black men - two of them migrants (sigh) - working together to create memorable events for future Black History Months and the Black Community which didn't involve carjacking or armed robbery.
The takeaway vibe I'm starting to get from many in leftist media already is,
"Please please we have to find a way to make this go away quickly. We may have to throw Jussie under a bus to do it..."
Anyone already getting that vibe?
This is bad. Really bad. Yet another 'all in against Trump supporters' on there part but it's worse because heavy politicos are on the hook as well....the people these journos run interference for. They can sense people have 'latched on' and aren't going to let go of this one.
Jussie is the sheep who cried maga, they may have to feed this sacrificial lamb to the wolves for the sake of future 2020 democratic shepherds.
Not happening.
Americans are going to regret the fact they've accepted the concept of "hate crime".
A 'hate crime' is an actual crime, enhanced by a thought crime. Someday the 'thought crime' will be enough. If you think not, you underestimate progressives.
> God help the next victim of a real racist attack.
To be fair, real racist attacks are hard to come by.
Since the Tawana Brawley incident in 1987 it has been prudent to wait for the facts to come in before rendering a judgement.
Browndog is correct. Without "hate crime laws" you wouldn't hear anything about these so-called hate crimes.
Will Smollett pay a fine and/or do time, or will a stern memo be placed in his personnel file?
Tommy Duncan said...
Since the Tawana Brawley incident in 1987 it has been prudent to wait for the facts to come in before rendering a judgement.
It's probably always been the case. But somehow, with hate crimes and rapes, it has become a hateful thing to *not* just take the alleged victim at his or her word.
"Believe all women" is dangerous, not a sweet sentiment. Don't believe all anyone.
Blogger Gunner said...
Chuck, would it make you feel better to call this White Republican Derangement Syndrome?
Not really. It’s the “Derangement Syndrome” part that I think requires greater care. Not just “mistaken,” or “wrong,” or “arguable,” or even small-d “deranged.” No; this has a medical term; a brand name; Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Again; I’d say that there might be times to use it appropriately. “Bush Derangement Syndrome” was a thing that I understood and endorsed as descriptive of some of the hate and attacks on 43.
This is not such a big thing today, but in the past I have been very dubious of some of Althouse’s applications of the tag. If she had only used it a very few times and this was one of them, I would have had nothing to say about it.
One of the nice things at the Althouse blog is that you can click on the Trump Derangement Syndrome tag and quickly (or not so quickly, since there are so many) see all the posts where she has applied it. And judge for yourself.
The thing about this is--- if everyone hadn't thought they needed to get on board supporting Jussie and condemning all white non-liberals, then it wouldn't have become what it is. Jussie was just a small part. But even stupid JOE BIDEN thought he had to make a statement condemning it. That's the culture we need to move away from.
SNL is missing comedy gold if/when they don't do a skit on this.
These people so want to believe that everyone outside of Manhattan, Seattle, San Francisco, and any college campus (or college town) are really just flagrant racists who, if they had their way, would run plantations with slaves consisting of all people of color.
They think this is what is meant by 'Make America Great Again'.
That sickens me more than anything that actually takes place.
Obviously Trump is colluding with Nigerians to sow social discord and distrust in America's political system as evidenced by the fact that the foreign interlopers have an epic web presence.
Where's a Muellskinner when you need one?
I'm black, and I and all my black friends doubted this story from the get-go.
Not surprising. Only white progs see all blacks through a filter of sacrosanctity [I know there's no such word but what the heck].
Don't believe all anyone.
Jane Marple would agree.
How sad for the WaPo that the story appears -- appears -- to be falling apart. And such a nice anti-Trump narrative too.
If the story is true that it was faked, will Smollett be written off Empire?
I am not going to reply to a dozen comments alleging that I am a defender of Jussie Smollett. I was one of Althouse’s first commenters to suggest that she watch out for this story, that it seemed like s hoax and that it might be something to blog.
Before Althouse had ever posted about it.
I’ve been a fan of fakehatecrimes.org.
I just don’t ever want the rich world of legitimate and important Trump criticism to be linked to the Jussie Smollet method of apparently calculated stunts.
In the past, Althouse has mixed them up. Where everything critical of Trump gets a Trump Derangement Syndrome tag. As I said above; if your idea of Trump Derangement Syndrome can be applied to Jussie Smollett and The Bulwark at the same time, it’s a problematic tag.
Black Americans so revere Africans they identify themselves as Africans. Are they going to throw two actual Africans under the bus to protect the 'honor' of an African-American?
On the last Joe Rogan show: "This Jussie Smollett situation is exactly why one does not let actors write the story"
Jussie should have to do community service with coal miners or something. Something where he can get to know the people he tried to smear.
How do the Democratic candidates walk back from this pile-on against Red America? How do they get the votes of people they constantly believe are one chance encounter away from lynching a black person?
I can't understand why anyone would want to admit that they're happier to know that a racist, homophobic violent attack took place than that one person told a big lie.
I'll always remember this as juror. My choice was to believe the Defendant had been sexually assaulted, which was a horrible act compounded by the fact she was still a minor even at trial; or that the Defendant was lying and thus nothing happened. I so much preferred that she was lying. It was amazing to me, because it really drove home the idea of innocent until proven guilty being an easy thing. I preferred that, because it meant the bad thing didn't happen. Alas, in the case I was on, it did happen. There was a real violent attack.
Yet, the impression lives on, and so I rather take the approach of innocence until clear facts arrive that suggest guilt. I still not sure enough exists to prove hoax, and that's what the cops are saying. I certainly don't buy the roving mobs of MAGA supporters, because where are the other incidents?
I am not going to reply to a dozen comments alleging that I am a defender of Jussie Smollett. I was one of Althouse’s first commenters to suggest that she watch out for this story, that it seemed like s hoax and that it might be something to blog.
Before Althouse had ever posted about it.
I’ve been a fan of fakehatecrimes.org.
I just don’t ever want the rich world of legitimate and important Trump criticism to be linked to the Jussie Smollet method of apparently calculated stunts.
In the past, Althouse has mixed them up. Where everything critical of Trump gets a Trump Derangement Syndrome tag. As I said above; if your idea of Trump Derangement Syndrome can be applied to Jussie Smollett and The Bulwark at the same time, it’s a problematic tag.
Blogger Chuck said...
"I am not going to reply to a dozen comments alleging that I am a defender of Jussie Smollett."
So he said, relying to a dozen comments...
Chuckles said:
I want attention.
I want attention.
Pay attention to me
If the story is true that it was faked, will Smollett be written off Empire?
Only until after Smollett gets treatment for his 'emotional and mental breakdown' which I see as his forthcoming defense. The left refuses to abandon its narrative just because of facts.
I can't wait for this to blow over so we can discuss black-face, sexual assault, Amazon in New York, the Green New Deal and other exciting topics.
"I would like to hear at least one of these lefty people lament the fact that "this idiot" falsely tried to smear the generic white male conservative as anti-gay, racist, ambushing reptiles wearing MAGA hats."
You can't lament that the smear is false when in fact you believe that the smear is true. THAT, and the casual manner with which the smear is bandied about as if "everyone" knows it's true, is what is so frightening.
Please address the substance of the post and the comments. Try not to name a commenter and talk about him personally. Quote what he said and address the substance of it. There is WAY too much pointless back and forth about personalities here. Who the hell cares? Remember there are many readers who do not comment and are interested in the subject. Why would they be interested in the one particular commenter whose substance is only as good as it is? If the substance isn't worth talking about, IGNORE HIM.
I know I could just delete every single comment that names Chuck, but the whole conversation here is idiotically sidetracked into a subject of ZERO importance. STOP TALKING ABOUT HIM. IT'S A HUGE BORE.
The attack did fit the narrative in the real world. A black gay man was beaten by two straight black men.
In my experience, the most openly and violent homophobes are black men.
Isn't it time to segue into something like this?
1. Well it wasn't true, BUT it could have been true.
2. And if it could have been true then we can treat it almost as if it had been true
and demand "teachable moments"
3. So, therefore, we can still behave as though it had been true even if it wasn't. Because. Because Trump, and to display the righteousness of ourselves, and of our causes.
After seeing pictures of the two big steroid pumped Nigerian brothers, it is hard to believe that anyone could have believed them to have been white MAGA supporters. One was supposedly his personal trainer, and looking at their bodies, it is easy to see why, see their allure if he is indeed gay.
In my experience, the most openly and violent homophobes are black men.
My "black community" link to an NIH publication, above, claims that it's black women, the same as with interracial marriage.
It's really disturbing to me that so many people "need" Trump supporters to be awful racist people. I see stuff like this:
The “Make America Great Again Hats” synonymous with supporters of President Donald Trump will one day carry the same shame as the uniforms worn by the Ku Klux Klan, according to scholar and Washington Post columnist Matt Sears.
Another in a long line of supposedly educated people reducing their percieved enemies to caricatures and straw men. For far too many people, Trump Supporters must be, need to be Racist Monsters. It's just depressing. I don't know how we can solve it. We can only continue to point out the fraud, the fake hate crimes, the false narratives, and hope that enough people begin to question what's been told to them over and over and over.
"Pelosi Quietly Deletes Tweet Slamming "Racist, Homophobic" Attack On Jussie Smollett"
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-17/pelosi-quietly-deletes-tweet-slamming-racist-homophobic-attack-jussie-smoleett
In my experience, the most openly and violent homophobes are black men.
Let's hear more of your 'experience', Bill. Were you hospitalized?
"f the exquisitely named Nana closes her eyes and says “I believe in fairies” three times, Tinkerbell will come back to life."
You forgot the part about clicking her heels three times..
And again: The demand for racists far exceeds the supply.
Let's take a moment to sympathize with the real victim of this sad, indeed tragic, chain of events: Kamala Harris, Super Tough Prosecutor with Super Advanced Critical Thinking Skills.
"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."
The Left doesn't really believe in the things they lecture the rest of us about.
Mumford isn't concerned about hate crimes or the victims of hate crimes. Her worry is that this hoax diminishes the charge of "racism!" that she uses as a cudgel against anyone to her right.
Mumford would happily welcome more hate crimes because they strengthen the cards in her hand, they make the alternate reality of her identity politics more real.
The lack of any real physical injuries was another clue. Staged, fake, whatever.
Aren’t the most homophobic the strict Muslims? Could be the intersectional black strict Muslim.
Smollett has quadrupled down so cant really go the I’m sorry route. He’s not sorry and inst a good enough actor to fool anybody.
He can’t be on Master Thespian because he never gets past the “You fooled me!” part.
From the beginning it sounded like some screen writer's idea of what a racist attack should look like. That the media and the vocal left embraced it so heartily says a lot about their world view.
What Ms Mumford is saying is “I have no business working in any capacity in the news business”
learn to code honey.
"If this was a planned and premeditated hoax- "
I read this and immediately wonndered "who got left back at the train station?". I glance up and see it's Chuck.
It's almost like reading Paul over at Powerline. You.read the first paragraph and know its more of the same drek Paul usually writes.
Another in a long line of supposedly educated people reducing their percieved enemies to caricatures and straw men. For far too many people, Trump Supporters must be, need to be Racist Monsters.
It is another attempt to get the Nice Married Women of Suburbia to vote for Democrats. Look at what Republicans do to Native Americans, to black people, to gays. Look at the people who dare to say they voted for Trump by wearing MAGA hats. They are disgusting! You don't want to be one of them, do you? You don't want your child to live in such a hateful world, or see you being hateful.
I beg my fellow married nice women of suburbia to not fall for this. Let's not be so easy to get a vote from, ok?
Please address the substance of the post and the comments. Try not to name a commenter and talk about him personally.
Dang. And just when I had a good come-back...
But, your blog, your rules.
When the 2nd plane slammed into the towers, some people looked up and said "wow what a coincidence"...
"From the beginning it sounded like some screen writer's idea of what a racist attack should look like."
Only if the writer worked for SNL.
Oh and of course Republicans grow up practically raping and killing young women in their friend's bedrooms. You don't want your daughters to grow up with that, do you Nice Married Women?
We don't vote the Democrat's way, and this is what they turn the culture into. Just for our votes.
It's almost like reading Paul over at Powerline. You.read the first paragraph and know its more of the same drek Paul usually writes.
I think he is starting to figure that out and is mellowing.
Definitely a bleachable moment.
God help the next person accused of a racist attack that turns out to be a hoax, because we surely know lefties and the WaPo won't help.
@Ferdinandstein
Black women are TREMENDOUSLY homophobic to gay blacks. Dated a very nice black girl last decade and her reaction to gay black men was one of revulsion. Not white gays....black gays only.
There's an unspoken sexual market value (SMV) that exists subconsciously in most people's minds. Unfortunately for most black men and women, they exist - even in their own minds - at the bottom of this marketplace. For black women, gay black men occupy a position not too much above black transgenders. They really really hate them, MOST ESPECIALLY if they happen to the submissive.
I suspect this has something to do with the fact that quality black men within their own communities are in such tremendously short supply, they can't stand someone making a choice to hit for the other team.
Black on black homophobia is 10x what whites see. But then black on black hate in general is too.
STOP TALKING ABOUT HIM. IT'S A HUGE BORE.
Ann,
On behalf of the community of daily readers but infrequent commenters that you mentioned, THANK YOU. Once a thread devolves into Chuck vs Drago mud slinging, I’m moving on. For the past few months it seems to start earlier and earlier in each thread. And while I’m not sympathetic to most of Chuck’s political beliefs, he usually is not the one who starts the dreary tit for tat name-calling.
This was an angry, bigoted attack against white men, as usual.
No matter how many blacks kill blacks, all that matters to the media is when a white man potentially fails to supplicate themselves to a black. The racist, hateful idea is that whites are supposed to always 100% no exceptions behave themselves better than the normal violent, obnoxious behavior expected from blacks by Godless Progs.
It is hard not to feel superior as a white person knowing real anti-Semites with real power in the U.S. House are of no concern to any media or hate groups like the SPLC because they are just lil Muslim girls, not a real threat to anyone or anything unlike the penniless, toothless, meth-addled white men are and must always be for the blood money and Satanic power to keep accumulating to the Proggies.
The trap is separating "people of color" from whites, knowing "people of color" move heaven an earth to immigrate to white majority countries instead of trying to remain among their peoples in shitholes. Once it is Japanese V. China, or Pakistan V. India, or Crips V. Bloods, or Gay V. Lesbian, or etc. they lose, so they frame everything as "people of color" V. White Men, although soon it will be White People, at which point not all the dumb pasty broads supporting ugly Progtards will remain so deadly aloof.
"Maybe people who walk around daily thinking the country is a racist, homophobic, dangerous cesspool should start resting more easily. Trump isn't going to put you in camps. People don't hate other people. Stop trying to stir the country up- and destabilizing people's peace of mind- just so your candidate can win the next election."
I think it goes beyond that. It's self-esteem branding for the Left. They have to give life to their illusionary Nazis so they can make a Righteous Stand.
1) it excuses the petty evils and corruption in their personal lives. "So maybe I DID make a pass at the babysitter, but stood up against Hate on Tuesday, so I can't be a total douche"
2) it absolves the shame of being a Democrat. "Smearing high school kids is permissible in our fight against resurgent fascists"
... there is a deep, dark racist history in Chicago.
Rather, there is a deep history of racial obsession in Chicago, darkly fomented by the Main Stream Media and decades of Democratic Party control.
This happened hard by the Covington debacle. Two in a row in such close proximity. You'd think someone in the media would wonder what they're doing wrong, It seems that their gifts of nuance and analysis are sadly lacking when it comes to their own fuck ups.......It's not just Smollett's reputation that has been damaged. It's the reputation of all those media people, politicians, and celebrities who took up his cause with such alacrity and fervor..........I judge Smollett to have less culpability that Nathan Phillips. Smollett blamed some unknown white people. Phillips blamed a specific group of white people and a specific white person. He told demonstrable lies. When have you heard anyone in the media call him out on his lies?...............You'd think that somewhere along the way someone in the Catholic Church would notice that they were attracting some bad eggs to the clergy and would take steps to fix it. You would think that someone in the media would notice that their biases were erroneously shaping their coverage of many news stories and that they would take steps to fix it. In both cases, you would be wrong.
What we still haven't read:
What I don't see is anger at what Phillips apparently did. He committed crimes with the explicit intent of inflaming America's cultural tensions, resentments, and hatred, all for his own personal gain. He should be held accountable for the impacts of his actions.
What I don't see is anger at what CBF apparently did. She committed crimes with the explicit intent of inflaming America's cultural tensions, resentments, and hatred, all for her own personal gain. She should be held accountable for the impacts of her actions."
Skookum John says: On behalf of the community of daily readers but infrequent commenters that you mentioned, THANK YOU. Once a thread devolves into Chuck vs Drago mud slinging, I’m moving on. For the past few months it seems to start earlier and earlier in each thread. And while I’m not sympathetic to most of Chuck’s political beliefs, he usually is not the one who starts the dreary tit for tat name-calling.
Agree 100%. Also, the back & forth with I--a. It just ruins a thread.
And PPT.
When was the last time white men ganged raped a black women? I mean other than Tawana Brawley and the Duke lacrosse team victim.
"Once a thread devolves into Chuck vs Drago mud slinging, I’m moving on. For the past few months it seems to start earlier and earlier in each thread"
Meh. If Althouse thought Chuck and Inga were disruptive they would be gone. You're being played.
Wby don't you abide by Althouses advice yourself? If we are expected to ignore the trolling, surely you can likewise ignore tbe counter-trolling.
If you refuse then why can't we? Seems hypocritical.
Every Monday morning brings a new summary of weekend Chicago violence by gangs of people in MAGA hats bearing nooses and bleach. We long for prior times of simple gang shootings.
As soon as I heard about the bleach, I knew it was fake. Only black guys and Hollywood screen writers are stupid enough to come up with that one.
When was the last time white men ganged raped a black women? I mean other than Tawana Brawley and the Duke lacrosse team victim.
According to the FBI crime statistics, White on Black rape is practically non-existent. Black on White rape however...
Smollett wears a beard. Just saying.
Not cool, bro.
White racists do exist. Think of Dylan Roof. He got convicted. Black scam artists do exist. Think of Al Sharpton. He got rich and famous
I can't understand why anyone would want to admit that they're happier to know that a racist, homophobic violent attack took place than that one person told a big lie.
Because she's a left-wing bigot who hates America, and hates most Americans.
Jussie story fed her biases. The bigot part is that, when it turned out the people she hates "weren't that bad", she was sad.
"Smollett has done incalculable damage. God help the next victim of a real racist attack. Nobody is going to believe him because of this idiot."
What a monster. Efua, that is. A little girl, who happens to be black, got shot and killed. The original suspicion was that it was a "white" person shooting her, so it was a big outrage.
Then it turned out that it was a "black" person who shot her. And all the scum like Efua stopped caring about the girl's murder.
Because they don't care about victims, they just care about pushing a political agenda.
The Smollett case reminds me of the accusations against the TEA party by the Congressional Black Caucus.
They claimed that TEA partiers spit at them and used racial epithets as they walked into Congress (In what was a staged event). There were tons of cameras and cello phones, but not one picked up any racial epithets nor any instances of spitting. Nonetheless, it became "established fact" that TEA partiers were racists.
When will leftist Blacks stopped running plays out of the White Guilt playbook? That worked for a long time because Whites were guilty of oppressing Blacks. Today, one might make the argument that it is independent thinking Whites who are largely oppressed by political correctness and SJWs.
If Charles and Ingrid are constantly involved in fights on the playground, with almost every other kid at one time or another, perhaps its because Charles and Ingrid are always instigators.
This has been going on for at least 6 years now. Like a soap opera you come back to a decade later only to find the same subplot STILL running. Its ridiculous. And really, there is something deeper going on here. Are they protected sockpuppets? Anonymous accounts of our hosts? It doesn't add up.
Either remove Charles and Ingrid, or quit asking EVERYONE ELSE to ignore the instigators. Anything else is bullshit.
"As soon as I heard about the bleach, I knew it was fake."
Can anyone explain why a white supremist would attack a black guy by trying to lighten his skin color? Maybe I'm missing something.
Has there ever been such an attack? Where does this originate from?
MayBee said...
I don't buy the argument that it will make it harder for the real victims. Real victims have real stories that make sense (usually). Humans are endlessly able to judge individual accounts based on their merits.
You think that because you're a sane individual. Nana, OTOH, is a monster who's definition of "real victim" is "anyone who hasn't been proved to have made up the 'hate crime'".
Jussie made it harder for the next faker to get away with it, just like the faker Avenati made it harder for the faker CBF to get away with it. THAT is what Nana is really bothered by
I haven't seen this mentioned-
I have known a few Nigerians in my 30 years in the work force. They all have distinctive accents. As close friends/coworkers, would not Jussie have recognized a Nigerian accent extolling the greatness of MAGA? Jussie's lawyer is now saying how horrified Jussie is that his friends would do this to him.
"STOP TALKING ABOUT HIM. IT'S A HUGE BORE."
Amen.
I had to Blog KillFile Drago and Chuck for this very reason.
Somollett is just another hoax accuser.
He won't be the first to mention, specially since most people didn't buy his bullshit.
Hoaxers come in all shapes and sizes, and even political orientation and it's not that uncommon for a hoaxer to push a hoax against it's own political camp.
We shouldn't talk about how smollett damaged the left, he didn't, he followed protocol, the left damaged him. But he did waste police time and money that could have been better spent solving actual crimes.
"I need this story to be true,"
Of course, how else would she ever get her racist opinions published if it wasn't for events like this.
Skookum John: "On behalf of the community of daily readers"
And no offense, but did the "community of daily readers" hold an election or something? Choosing you to speak on their behalf?
If you want to weigh in witb your opinion, that's fine. But presenting yourself as a spokesman for everyone else is wrong.
"You would think that someone in the media would notice that their biases were erroneously shaping their coverage of many news stories and that they would take steps to fix it."
Ha. As if that's the goal.
“Smollett has done incalculable damage. God help the next victim of a real racist attack. Nobody is going to believe him because of this idiot.”
I guarantee that, not only will the next real victim be believed, but the next fake victim will have his/her story uncritically accepted by the usual suspects.
@Larvell- agree 100 %. This is not going to stop people from saying Trump is a racist. It's a hedge bet all the way. If it is a hate crime, trump is indeed a racist. If it is a hoax , the person was an idiot and trump is still a racist.
Btw the groups that most likely to perform hate crimes are groups that have been historically VICTIMZED. They are the ones that have a cause to hate because they suffered.
can't understand why anyone would want to admit that they're happier to know that a racist, homophobic violent attack took place ……..
I have always felt that the big enchilada that libs are waiting for is some mass casualty incident that can be attributed to a right wing ideologue. You can sense that hopeful anticipation when those incidents unwind - "it could be a right winger"; "a registered Republican voter somewhere has the same name, must be the same person"; "he may not have any political leanings, but if he did, it would be right-wing Republican", etc. Then, as the facts emerge and nothing fits that narrative, you can feel the sense of disappointment.
There is always hope that the next incident will be attributable to a right wing ideologue, and then there will be dancing in the streets to celebrate. All the previous incidents, as they say, "sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet."
For someone who makes his living in front of a camera, it appears that Mr. Smollett was quite oblivious to the ubiquity of surveillance cameras in today's society. Cameras are everywhere, and you can safely assume that you are under surveillance any time that you are out in public. This is bad news for criminals and scammers, who no longer can assume that nobody can see them when they are up to no good. The Chicago police were not only able to pick out the two Nigerian men who allegedly helped Mr. Smollett with his caper, but also able to track them to the store where they bought the bleach and the rope. Keep that in mind if you decide that you want to join the no-goodniks.
"This is not going to stop people from saying Trump is a racist."
It will increase the likelihood. Its like defending yourself against false accusations of sex crimes - you can prove your innocence but all people will remember is that you were involved in something perverted.
This will add to the ranks of people who "just know" Trump supporters are racist homophobes but can't give specific examples.
Democracy Dies in Darkness!
"Cameras are everywhere, and you can safely assume that you are under surveillance any time that you are out in public"
The wife and I were very interested in the actions police took in tbeir investigation. We like murder mysteries (Hercule Poirot) and, as a mental exercise, have tried to concoct the perfect murder.
Two rules we have learned:
1) every attempt to clean up your footprints only creates more footprints. Driving to the next city to pick up your trash bags and shovels? Guess what, your car was caught by a red light camera.
2) if detectives ever turned their attention on you, it's over. Just a matter of time. They are smarter than you and more importantly, more experienced. That cute little gambit you think you're pulling off? They've already seen it three times this year. Your best move is to answer the questions best you can and then immediately pack your bags and flee the country.
PINING FOR RACISM ( 'I needed this to be true")
No white guys would lynch me, so I had to stage one--
and I had to import and PAY Africans to do it
It's racist for Whitey to deny us the oppression we so crave
"For someone who makes his living in front of a camera, it appears that Mr. Smollett was quite oblivious to the ubiquity of surveillance cameras in today's society."
Not at all. Jussie was quite aware of the surveillance cameras there. That's why he chose that area after casing it. He even pointed out at least one camera to the police. The spot chosen for the "assault" was one that he knew, or thought he knew, was not covered by a camera. It's not clear now if he was right or not.
They narrative powers to be also employing selective flawed syllogistic logic.
Johnny performed a hate crime against x group
Johnny is white
All whites hate x group.
I say selective because the never use that logic in the following case
Johnny performed a hate crime against a white man
Johnny is black
All blacks hate whites
You might say why or how do the narrative powers get away with flawed logic, oppression, hatred or injustice. The answer is that any group that has been historically victimized is given sacred status in our secular culture " an eye for an eye".
Whenever diversity is exposed, when the bigotry of political congruence is revealed, this is affirmative action to recast its progress.
After doing my regular Monday AM routine — checking phone messages, checking email, contacting clients — I usually wait until elevenish to read the news 'cause I'm not that breathlessly preoccupied with the worm's eye view of events. This morning I Googled Smollet hoping for news that he wasn't going to prolong the calumny he authored and confess. This is what I saw.
"Rev Al Sharpton gives us the latest on Jussie Smollet" (MSNBC)
"Why the Jussie Smollet case warranted skepticism from the start" (CNN)
What the fuck????!!! Al Fucking Sharpton? I suppose getting an ancient fraudster's take on a budding grifter's iniquity has some literary value. But on a "news" program? They must be crazy. Or worse. The last glimpse of Sharpton I saw was yesterday when he held his iPhone up to his repellant puss and made an out-of-focus demand that Trump must condemn the preps in the Smollet attack. Jesus H. Christ.
And now CNN tells all of us deplorable idiots why WE should have been skeptical from the beginning when it was their own anchor-babe who leaped into the cesspool head first with her credulous and grossly bigoted "This is America in 2019". Break me a fucking give, youngling.
"Smollett has done incalculable damage. God help the next victim of a real racist attack. Nobody is going to believe him because of this idiot."
What's really remarkable is that all of these idiots have convinced themselves that there are lots and lots of white-on-black hate crimes, presumably involving nooses and bananas.
Blogger mockturtle said...
"Skookum John says: On behalf of the community of daily readers but infrequent commenters that you mentioned, THANK YOU. Once a thread devolves into Chuck vs Drago mud slinging, I’m moving on. For the past few months it seems to start earlier and earlier in each thread. And while I’m not sympathetic to most of Chuck’s political beliefs, he usually is not the one who starts the dreary tit for tat name-calling.
Agree 100%. Also, the back & forth with I--a. It just ruins a thread."
This X100...Finally.
These incidents are a good way of reminding people of the calendar. I will rely on CNN to tell me when it's 2020.
why a white supremist would attack a black guy by trying to lighten his skin color
There is a case, still pending, I believe, of black diversitists rape-raping (hat tip: Whoopi) a young couple, Christian/Newsom, then trying to lighten their internals using bleach. Unfortunately, or fortunately?, their attempt failed, and the young people were only tortured and aborted. It was a big case that I don't recall making WaPo... national headlines.
Bias, messing up a story, whatever. This is simply stupidity.
No, this is mortal sin. This is a case of "false witness against thy neighbor". The Romans used to punish this kind of bullshit by flogging the miscreant and then branding the letter K for kalumniator (false accuser) into his forehead.
Smollett has made people suspicious of "hate crimes"? The horse escaped from that barn door about 5 years ago. When AREN'T these 'hate crimes' fake? Especially the ones with nooses and swastikas? Or the ones done on Left-wing College campuses or in deep-blue big cities or neighborhoods?
All these fake crime fakers have a real problem. These left winger are surrounded by Leftists - all the mythical hate filled Trump supporters and KKK Members - live elsewhere. They really need to up their game.
I just start scrolling quickly through the comments stopping at the icons of commenters who's comments I have found interesting or enlightening in the past. Everyone else gets skipped.
No time for the school yard taunts and bravado.
These fake Hate crimes do serve a purpose. They're very useful for identifying #fakecons and "Principled conservatives". These character are ALWAYS the first to join some liberal lynch mob and start spitting hatred at the Covington Boys, Trump supporters, etc. Some do learn. I noticed that Rod Dreher, has become more cautious and less enthusiastic in going after Trump supporters after being shown to be fool about 50 times in the last 6 years. I can remember him railing about poor little Trayvon and horrible "white racist" George Zimmerman.
Charlie, I'm honored to be on your 'read' list. :-)
Quaestor, you're so cute when you're angry! ;-)
To the MSM these fake Hate crimes are a feature not a bug. They serve the same purpose as real racist attacks. Ratings and putting "The Right" and white people in general on the defensive. So what, if a week or two later, its shown to be a fraud? Is there any real blow-back for them? No.
That's why the perps like Smollett need to be punished.
"Americans are going to regret the fact they've accepted the concept of "hate crime".
IMO, "hate crime" and "thought crime" legislation is unconstitutional. But Grandma O'Connor and the Left-wing SCOTUS judges disagreed.
She would rather a couple of innocents were lynched, and a population was painted with her bigoted perspective, than forsake her bitter demand for social progress.
"hate crime" and "thought crime" legislation is unconstitutional
They are legal under the Twilight Amendment, which supersedes the due process Amendment, the cruel and unusual punishment Amendment, and established Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic, and State. The age barrier that has mitigated its progress is flimsy and, in fact, porous.
mockturtle wrote: Quaestor...
I was so angry I typed "preps" instead of "perps". Somehow topsiders and madras shirts ill-suit the Brothers Osundairo.
But then, it was "preps" Al Sharpton was referring to, no?
The Trayvon Martin caseconvinced me that our cultural elites are insane. They really believe that white men (or white-hispanic men) occasionally grab a sidearm and go on hunt and destroy missions targeting innocent young black men. How insane do you have to be to believe that? How many of the people who make a living analyzing and commenting on public policy believe that white cops or just plain white guys purposely seek out Black men to kill?
"Almost immediately, I had a terrible feeling that I was victim blaming, or worse, that I am so brainwashed that I no longer can hear cries of hurt and outrage from my own black community. It was a horrifying feeling that I am still trying to work through almost three weeks later."
This is Ms. Mumford's response to her own brief bout of rationality. Who does she suppose has been brain-washing her, in her Leftist media cocoon? It must be very strange to inhabit a mind that works like that. This woman feels really, really bad because she immediately suspected the truth about a false accusation. She still hasn't gotten over the guilt she feels at her own sanity. I can't forgive her for what she is and does, but I do feel sorry for her.
I just flat out don't believe her story about doubting the story. I think she is trying to cover her ass, and can't even do that in a creditable way.
Look, if you have doubts like those described, you don't go whole hog into acting like you believed it. This is Monday morning quarterbacking.
Also, that comment that got up-voted- he seems to have doubted the story for the wrong reasons.
Matthew Sablan, yesterday in a comment here, wondered whether Smollett would have enough personal integrity to let the two Nigerian men off the hook by confessing to the hoax- we got the answer later yesterday to that question- Smollett is sticking with his story that he was attacked, but is saddened to learn it was these two men.
@Quaestor
IIRC Sharpton had contact with Smollett just prior to the "attack".
There may be deeper political underpinnings/collusion to all of this since
Jussie "Juicy Fruit" Smollett is quite connected along those lines, and
there is the curious timing with that anachronistic 'anti-lynching' bill that
Booker T. Spartacus was hyper-ventilating about.
Quaestor muses: But then, it was "preps" Al Sharpton was referring to, no?
Yes, he probably had Justice Kavenaugh in mind.
Wow, Chuck, are you really the dumbest fuck ever?
Smollett himself made it look like Trump supporters attacked him, and Mumford is sad to realize that the story wasn't true because she wanted to believe it. This is TDS by definition. How you could miss that is just jaw-dropping.
Why should the truth break a heart?
Truth exists.
2+2=4 Society
Why should the truth break a heart?
"where your treasure is, there will be your heart also"
the truth was an affront to her stored-up, carefully guarded racism
Sure, the next prog bigot who lies about being mistreated by white Americans who love their country and support the president is not going to be treated like a victim-hero by the democrat party media and the brain-dead haters and traitors of the democrat party. Wanna bet? I bet that right now the democrat party is feverishly scheming up something to take the attention away from this debacle. I'm guessing that within a week or so America will have the next Permit Patty of a white American annoying blacks in some fashion, and voila, presto change-o, racist America in the era of Trump.
since his gig w Empire was on the way out, maybe Jussie-Fruit
was getting groomed to parlay this 'hate-crime' into a political
career coached by the master(race)baiter himself, Al Sharpton,
who now has to wipe his fingerprints off of it.
A story that claimed that two white Trump supporters in true-blue Chicago a) were loitering on the street in 10 degree weather and b) knew who the hell Jesse Smollett was had some pretty big holes in it in the first place.
I'm waiting on the inevitable "Trump made me do this."
This is what happens when the demand for hate crimes outstrips the supply.
+1
Browndog said...
When you believe Americans are horrible racist bigots, then find out people have to hire foreigners to commit hate crimes on their behalf.
...
Doing the jobs Americans won’t do.
"You'd think someone in the media would wonder what they're doing wrong,"
They're not doing anything wrong. They have once again reinforced Trump Derangement Syndrome. The people who have it won't pay any attention to the hoax revelation.
From their point of view, it practically doesn't matter if the original story is false or not. Truth is completely inconsequential.
What counts is having the appropriate reaction, which is indicated in this piece: fierce joy if the attack is true, denial if the attack is fake.
You're not supposed to think or "respond" in some meaningful way, only to ask how high. It's not about truth, it's about expressing group loyalty. They want to short-circuit conscious thinking and turn the "appropriate" response into a reflex.
Otherwise you're a racist.
Smollett's report made them feel really righteous and good about themselves, now the fact that it's being cast into doubt is making them feel bad. Why won't anyone think of how they are feeling now? They still feel like the victims here and this is the only thing they are willing to talk about.
The biggest change I've noticed in the coverage of this story is the media's use of the word 'alleged.'
It is now being called an 'alleged' crime against Smollet. That wasn't the case when it first came out.
To Smollett and his supporters, this attack story points to some deeper truth.
Smollett must overheard some really hurtful remark years ago and has never been able to let it go. He is a deeply sensitive person and has been suffering enormously ever since.
Even though he keeps telling them all about it, they aren't sufficiently impressed. He is still amazed at how his pain seems invisible to others.
Thus, he had to stage this attack to help them understand how much he and others are hurting.
It's not even that he minds their hatred. Hatred he can live with; he feels it all around him. What he minds is indifference and neglect. What he minds is not being taken seriously.
Maybe now all these racist white people, who don't know what being "invisible" feels like, will realize how serious the problem is. This will show them! Now they'll have to pay attention to what he has been saying all along!
I beg my fellow married nice women of suburbia to not fall for this. Let's not be so easy to get a vote from, ok?
You know, because you live among them as I do, that 9 out of 10 of them think with their feelings, want to feel like they are the Good People and have no critical thinking skills, even the educated ones.
If you doubt this for a minute think about how many of them honestly and earnestly believe that they are going to be able to Make A Good Side Income And Stay Home With The Kids while selling you leggings and essential oils. And how many of them think they Are Helping when they checked in on Facebook at the Standing Rock reservation a few years ago. And think that the only illegal immigrants trying to get into our country are mothers with diapered toddlers Fleeing Violence and Looking For A Better Life.
Twitter won't let this go on. Soon, messaging someone "what about Jussie Smollett" will be considered harassment and lead to an automatic Twitter ban.
BREAKING via AceofSpades
Those of you who suspected the "hate mail" sent earlier was also fraudulent were spot on.
Ace: "If this report is correct, and cops found the magazine out of which the words of the 'threatening letter' had been cut, that's pretty much game over."
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/379854.php
From CBS News in Chicago:
“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, upset after a racist letter sent to the show’s studio didn’t get a “bigger reaction,” is suspected of paying two men to attack him a week later, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.
“When the letter didn’t get enough attention, he concocted the staged attack,” a source told CBS 2 Investigator Brad Edwards. Other sources corroborated that information.
...Smollett received a letter containing a white powder Jan. 22. The letter was mailed to Chicago’s Cinespace Studios, where the show “Empire” is filmed. The letter prompted a HAZMAT response. CPD says the “white substance” was later determined to be aspirin.
Now there is speculation the white powder letter was also a staged hoax by Smollett.
"Smollett must overheard some really hurtful remark years ago and has never been able to let it go."
Nailed it. We've all heard of "composite" characters in biographies and "composite" sources in news articles.
Now we have composite hate crimes, recreations meant to embody all the previous hate crimes the victim experienced.
You know, because you live among them as I do, that 9 out of 10 of them think with their feelings, want to feel like they are the Good People and have no critical thinking skills, even the educated ones.
Sad but true, Pants. Sad but true.
"I can't understand why anyone would want to admit that they're happier to know that a racist, homophobic violent attack took place than that one person told a big lie."
I can't understand! I can't believe! It's so sad!
Now there is speculation the white powder letter was also a staged hoax by Smollett
There is also speculation that Lake Michigan is cold and wet.
"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."
Progs are out and proud about their confirmation bias.
"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."
Yes, exposing another prog smear, endorsed by the MSMa nd Dem politicians, as utterly mendacious is "awful."
"So it would be okay knowing that there was a horrible attack because you're so certain that so much more of the same out there?"
So much more of the same--right, because day after day men in MAGA hats go around with ropes trying to attack gay actors.
"Ironically, Mumford's column itself bolsters the belief that there's a big effort to misrepresent Trump supporters. She's saying she wants the hateful image of Trump supporters to stick. She was (and still is) hoping for Smollett's story to hold up. She's admitting she is an actively biased recipient of evidence."
Well, yeah. She's a prog. Any progs who are not "actively biased" that way?
"Smollett has done incalculable damage."
To the prog cause, yes. And that's all they care about.
"God help the next victim of a real racist attack."
You mean, like, the disproportionate number of white people killed by blacks every year?
"Nobody is going to believe him because of this idiot."
As if fake crimes #1 through #346 might not have raised a bit of doubt.
"Nobody is going to believe him because of this idiot."
As if fake HATE crimes #1 through #346 might not have raised a bit of doubt.
FIFM.
Now there is speculation the white powder letter was also a staged hoax by Smollett.
Among the things taken from the Nigerian brothers apartment were magazines. I'm betting that they are the ones they cut the letters out of for the hoax. The fools didn't even throw the magazines away.
"Now we have composite hate crimes, recreations meant to embody all the previous hate crimes the victim experienced."
Agreed. This is performance art / street theater, it's his personal masterpiece. Like most good art, it's inspired by, but doesn't slavishly follow, personal experience.
On a different note, I don't think this is about Trump or Republicans. To people like Smollett, Republicans are subhuman lepers. In his world they don't really "exist", except as the living embodiment of racism.
It's about "moderate" Democrats of the wrong skin color. If Smollett and his backers don't stay vigilant, Democrats might be tempted, with a little push from their party grandees, to nominate some sort of consensus candidate in 2020. They might want to govern from the middle. Or they might nominate some classical Marxist like Bernie Sanders.
But these choices are now tainted by association. One can practically see them, in the mind's eye, wearing a MAGA hat. How can a black person ever vote for a white candidate again, after this racist Smollett attack?
By staging and publicizing these incidents they are keeping race front and center, as the main theme of the 2020 campaign. They are making the "moderates" and classical Marxists bow to their anti-racist totem.
I don't see how Democrats could ever rise again above the suspicion of not caring enough, unless they nominate Jussie Smollett as their 2020 candidate.
Well at least we now know why the attack came at 2am when it was zero degrees out. The "attackers" had to be bundled up so no one would notice they were uh...two black guys.
Camera had to pick up just enough to see the "assault" but not see too much.
Too bad the camera was "pointing the wrong way"
What a name. Nana FU Mumford.
"If this report is correct, and cops found the magazine out of which the words of the 'threatening letter' had been cut, that's pretty much game over."
LOL - Sounds like someone watched a Columbo episode with Dick Van Dyke.
It appears Smollett was willing to testify against innocent men https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelDavSmith/status/1097468270561628161
My guess is that Smollett was about to be written off the show, “Empire,” because he is not very smart. I read somewhere that Smollett was a child star. It’s Ok to be dumb if you are a child but maybe not so OK after you become an adult actor. Another related assumption is that it requires a certain base-line amount of intelligence to perform well as an adult actor on a popular dramatic series.
The over-the-top touches of MAGA hat-wearing rednecks in the middle of Detroit (in the wee hours of the morning), a noose (still around his neck when the police arrived), bleach (subconscious desire for white-ness?), etc., while red meat for the propaganda machine often euphemistically referred to as the “mainstream media,” were just a bit too perfect for more realistic viewers.
Over and above the false complaint to the Detroit police the phony letter apparently violated several federal statues. At this point the only question is how much time Smollett is going to serve.
Blogger Chuck said...
I just don’t ever want the rich world of legitimate and important Trump criticism to be linked to the Jussie Smollet method of apparently calculated stunts.
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What you mean to say:
"I am afraid you are mistaking me for someone who has an interest in fair treatment of Donald Trump. I'm not your guy. I am interested in smearing him, hurting him and prejudicing people against him."
3/4/16, 4:46 PM
Such a sad mind you have to think TDS doesn't apply to Smollett, who according to you was merely performing a "stunt".
Look at your own words before critiquing others.
LLR Chuck: "I am afraid you are mistaking me for someone who has an interest in fair treatment of Donald Trump. I'm not your guy. I am interested in smearing him, hurting him and prejudicing people against him."
Just like Jussie Smollett.
In fact, exactly like Jussie Smollett.
Fen: "Nailed it. We've all heard of "composite" characters in biographies and "composite" sources in news articles."
Where's T-Bone?
Where's obama's biography composite girlfriend?
And no, I don't care if mentioning either of these things makes lefties and LLR's weep uncontrollably.
They were going to do that anyway.
As MB points out above, this wasn't much of a hoax but as a piece of performance art it was a masterpiece. The very flimsiness of the hoax is revelatory of the surrounding prejudices. The only thing credible about the circumstances surrounding the crime against Smollett was the credulity of the media, celebrities, and newscasters who wanted so much to believe in it......If Smollett as an artist wished to present a tableaux vivant of race relations in America he couldn't have done better than this skillful parody of a race crime.........,Smollett is quite the fraud. He's a child of privilege, and the wiki bio doesn't document a life of struggle and oppression.. Even his gay status is in doubt. He was straight at one time and only recently came out as gay. According to wiki, he reserves the right to bond with women if the life force so directs him........The only thing real about him is his fraudulent nature. He'll be celebrated for that for a long time.
From CBS News in Chicago:
“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, upset after a racist letter sent to the show’s studio didn’t get a “bigger reaction,” is suspected of paying two men to attack him a week later, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.
“When the letter didn’t get enough attention, he concocted the staged attack,” a source told CBS 2 Investigator Brad Edwards. Other sources corroborated that information.
What's most fascinating is the trajectory of the smear by Jussie and his fan base, which, lets face it, included quite a few LLR's who immediately latched on and praised him.
When the first or second smear does not gain any traction, for obvious reasons (Lefty/LLR smears are usually quite dumb), the lefties/LLR's cannot help but to escalate.
For instance, if a visitor on a popular website is not getting movement with their day to day smears, they might just escalate it by, oh, I don't know, allude to something negative about a politicians child, or allude to a filthy lefty smear related to the republican's wife, or perhaps even attempt to paint every single Trump voter as some sort of modern version of the KKK or the John Birch society or some other lefty lunacy.
It's the natural trajectory of the lefty/LLR. But only every single time.
The Nigerians should be banned from the US permanently.
Seeing Red: "The Nigerians should be banned from the US permanently"
I feel bad for the Nigerians. Having to live in that Chicago S***-hole.
Since someone else has said it/published it, I can admit now that I absolutely believed that it was a "hookup gone bad" - and that the ensuing stuff came about because Smollett was urged to report to the police by the horrified person that he was attempting to delude. I thought the bleach was an attempt to explain away an attempt to remove some traces, and that the noose being worn was a transparent dodge to add credibility.
It has happened before - remember the Ivy League frosh who was supposedly raped in the shower by a bunch of guys? That was all about the boyfriend, it turned out.
I am quite amazed about what we are being told about the real story behind the Smollett claim. That IS bizarre. But the brothers have been released, and that wouldn't have happened unless they could make pretty credible claims.
And now, of course, we are all waiting for the next shoe to drop, and for the FBI to lay evidence that the letter was also a fake. If the letter turns out to have been a fake, then Smollett is in real trouble because such cases are tried by the Feds.
Maybe Smollett can carry a mattress around wherever he goes.
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