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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 29, 2019 23:14:55 GMT
Anyone contacted Al Sharpton for comment? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 23:18:17 GMT
Anyone contacted Al Sharpton for comment? We’re better than this. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 23:20:21 GMT
I sure hope that Jussie Smollett was brutally attacked in a hate crime! [/Twitter]
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Post by xanadu on Jan 30, 2019 0:27:40 GMT
Where's the meme showing Nate the refrigerator repairman approaching the gay actor with a bottle of bleach?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 0:41:22 GMT
Watched NBC News' coverage of this. It was pretty straightforward, reporting what the police report said. No mention made of the MAGA thing.
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 30, 2019 0:43:07 GMT
Oh, we’re for sure going to get lectured, and have to learn important lessons, based on this attack, whether it happened or not.
Early Tuesday morning, Jussie Smollett, the 36-year-old star of Fox's Empire, left a Chicago restaurant and was reportedly accosted by two men who proceeded to shout racial and homophobic slurs before beating him, pouring an unknown chemical substance on him, and wrapping a rope around his neck before fleeing the scene. According to a statement issued by Chicago police, the incident is being investigated as a "possible hate crime."
The cautious wording is one last wound inflicted on Smollett's battered body, a careful hedging of bets that don't need hedging—a crime scene involving a corpse is not discussed as a "possible death." But the stodgy apparatus of law enforcement isn't particularly interested in acknowledging social ills—and neither is the news media when it goose-steps around the truth of the matter with shallow euphemisms like "racially charged" used to describe open, proud bigotry.
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A still-disputed aspect of the attack on Smollett is a line shouted after his attackers fled the scene: "This is MAGA country." While its veracity isn't confirmed, its sentiment needs no fact-check. America's choice to embrace the blind rage of late-stage whiteness in decline is an explicit longing for this kind of crime, a version of America in which those who do not assimilate to the satisfaction of their white, straight, and Christian betters are subject to the impunity of law enforcement, the scorn of the media and the fury of racist homophobes stalking the streets of your city, who want you to know that they could lynch you if they really wanted to, and maybe get away with it too.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 0:49:52 GMT
Is lynching not already a crime?
I had already assumed it was illegal. If it isn't, that really has to be addressed.
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 30, 2019 0:52:49 GMT
ABC News’ updated this within the hour. The 36-year-old "Empire" actor was in Chicago early Tuesday, walking outside, when someone shouted racial and homophobic slurs at him, police said.
Two men then attacked the actor, poured "an unknown chemical substance" on him, possibly bleach, and wrapped a rope around his neck, Smollett told police. The rope was still around Smollett's neck when he was found, officials said.
Smollett told police, in a follow-up interview, that the suspects yelled "MAGA country" during the attack.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/empire-star-brutally-attacked-hospitalized-hate-crime/story?id=60701735 |
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Post by jaketaylor on Jan 30, 2019 0:53:30 GMT
When I read something this stupid I sure didn't expect it to come from GQ.
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 30, 2019 0:59:12 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 1:10:52 GMT
“Its sentiment needs no fact-check.”
Great job, media.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 1:31:13 GMT
“Its sentiment needs no fact-check.” Great job, media. That’s embarrassing for so many different reasons, not the least of which is that “sentiment” literally means “opinion.” |
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Post by Dr Boom 70 on Jan 30, 2019 2:08:50 GMT
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Post by YankeeFan on Jan 30, 2019 4:06:29 GMT
He was way ahead of the game.
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Post by xanadu on Jan 30, 2019 9:39:57 GMT
"Allegedly" and "possible" in recent CBS headline.
"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett allegedly assaulted in possible hate crime, police say
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