The judge actually addressed this at his sentencing. He did a good job of summarizing the case and the impact his crime has had on society in general. |
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Eyeroll, for what? The right wing used the Smollett case to push a disgusting narrative suggesting that hate crimes do not exist, that they are all hoaxes. Complete lie. Every year there are hundreds of very real hate crimes, with very real victims, and very real perpetrators. Those kinds of lies need to be shut down. Not eyerolled. |
Sadly? In comparison to the total number of proven, prosecuted hate crimes the hoaxes represent just a tiny percentage. You should be even more sad about the real ones. |
Actually, it is Smollet who pushed that narrative by his own actions, which is soooo interesting, because in order for him to be successful, he was banking on white America being outraged that a noose was hung and wring its hands over it. That's the OPPOSITE of banking on America being racist. He was banking on America being self- flagellating. |
Oh please. I saw tons of right wing BS in comments, discussion forums and message boards about "another Smollett" every time there was a hate crime. TONS of it. |
^^Exactly this. And what's *really* sad is that he was correct. Remember all those outraged liberals, who completely fell for this disgusting stunt? If anyone's to blame for casting doubt on some hate crimes, it's Jussie himself. Also interesting to note that exactly none of those dopes fawning over him when he first made his accusation have come back to apologize. Kamala, I'm looking at you, among so many others. |
And it turned out, about half of them actually were hoaxes. He inspired a lot of fake hate crimes. That helps no one. Now when they actually happen, people will scoff and ignore it. Not good. |
You misunderstood. He was taken immediatley into custody to serve 150 days in jail. He will have 30 months of probation. He will make restitution to CPD and pay a $25k court fine. Honestly I'd forgotten about this chode. His sentence is stronger than I expected. He pitched a fit in court and shouted he's not suicidal so if he dies in jail it's not suicide. So I guess he must be suicidal. He does not acknowledge any fault and plans to appeal. I wonder who's paying the legal bills. He has not worked since the fake event. He did so much harm to the real people who are hate crimed every day. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/jussie-smollett-sentenced-to-prison-probation-for-lying-to-police-in-staged-hate-crime/2780255/ |
Liberals believed it, because sadly there ARE a lot of hate crimes that happen. But unfortunately the Smollett case was just one dumb idiot trying to do some attention-seeking. But the right wing has never believed it. For years and years they denied that racism and hate crimes even exist. Then Smollett happened, and they all said "See? It's all fake!" But the hate crimes continued and still continue today. Meanwhile, dishonest grifters like Andy Ngo started to amplify one and only class of hate crime: black on asian. And then the right wing narrative shifted to "See? Hate crimes DO exist but it's ALL BLACK PEOPLE!" The entire narrative has been dishonest and toxic going back years. And the right wing has done this, despite the fact that the FBI UCR is full of thousands of actual hate crimes. Thousands EVERY YEAR. Compared to the mere handful of hoaxes in the last 10 years. The right wing has done this, despite the fact that on any given week one can find several incidents in the news, along with the arrests of the perpetrators - REAL hate crimes every single week. Yes, Smollett is an idiotic attention seeking grifter who did a monumentally stupid thing. But STOP with the heinously false narratives about how hate crimes are "hoaxes." |
The bolded is all you needed to say. Of course there are real hate crimes - and Jussie Smollett made a mockery of them. End of story. |
The demand vastly exceeds supply. Hence the Smollets, swastika hoaxes etc. |
The media has a not so great record of amplifying supposed hate crimes that tend to fall apart under scrutiny. You can almost take it t the bank that whenever there is a swastika or noose or other such fantastical detail that it is fake or exaggerated. |
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