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Why is it that so many on the left fell for the Jussie Smollett story

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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,570 Standard Supporter
    SFGbob said:

    SFGbob said:

    46XiJCAB said:

    I think the bigger question is why the left doesn't back verifiable instances of racism. Hardly any news on the Waukesha massacre, no investigation actually who leads the Asian Hate stats, or when Jews are beaten up in the streets of NYC.

    What’s His Name said the story is everywhere. Even today. Black guy mows down little white kids and it’s a story for a few days.

    Flip that and we’d still have rioting in the streets and a “national dialogue” demanded. Dishonest people will deny that this story has been purposely suppressed.
    In the past couple weeks you've had a number of incidents where black perps have attacked white victims. Killing little kids, beating women, slashing and stabbing people. Completely random and unprovked attacks.

    Just crime in the big city, nothing to see here.
    Iron Law: When you excuse violence or any other anti-social behavior, you get more of it.

    Shoplifting a problem, H & Kobe? Nah. Cause racism.
    Bingo. It's why the broken windows policy toward policing was so effective. Allowing a climate of disorder and chaos to exists only invites more crime, disorder and chaos. The explosing in smash and grab robberies and homocides is a direct result of what the left allowed to happen in the summer of 2020. But our minimum wages laws are the real problems.
    Wood shampoos were even more effective than broken windows!
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    Jesse took the stand yesterday and went full double down on the hoax not being a hoax. He’s going to commit perjury on cross exam.
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,188
    Lemon told his viewers at the time that the story was "personal" since he and Smollett had been acquaintances and were in constant communication since the alleged incident and that Smollett told Lemon what he said had happened to him, which he admitted raised lots of questions.

    Yeah, I'll bet they were "acquaintances"
  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,570 Standard Supporter
    That's like explaining why we could watch every minute of the Rittenhouse trial but not Smollett.
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,898 Standard Supporter

    SFGbob said:

    I think the bigger question is why the left doesn't back verifiable instances of racism. Hardly any news on the Waukesha massacre, no investigation actually who leads the Asian Hate stats, or when Jews are beaten up in the streets of NYC.

    Because, unless the "racism" can advance them politically, they have no interest in it. It's why they don't give a fuck about blacks being murdered by other blacks, there's no gain for them with that. But let a white person, especially a white cop, kill a black person and they're OUTRAGED.
    It has a lot to do with seeing everything as a zero-sum-game. Economics, education, health, financial security, etc. Too many believe the only way to get these things is to deny or take them from others. Take Advanced Classes in Education. Too many whites and Asians excelling, so what's easier? Pushing more other kids into the programs, or eliminating those programs in hopes of keeping the high performers in the same demo as the average and below average kids.

    Look at the arguments about Reparations. Same thing. All White folks got rich off slave labor, or at least participating and benefitting in a white supremacist system that bestowed specific advantages specifically upon them. No white kid ever worked as hard as a non-white kid in school, suffered as much hardship and oppression, struggled with broken family issues, etc. Too bad. Take anything that kid has earned and give it to a non-white kid, because slavery or some other historical slight. It's a zero-sum mind trap that teaches kids to believe all opportunity is finite and can only be appropriated, not expanded or created. Life is nothing but a series of hookups and handouts from a finite batch of goods.

    What a way to see the world. Yet today, it's incredibly prevalent.
    This is the basic premise of capitalism. In a free competitive environment, both parties to a trade are wealthier after the trade. I get what you don't need as much as you need what I have and vice versa. So, you can see the massive amount of wealth that has been created in the US since the 1800s when the US was largely a subsistence level farming community. When the slobberer believes in the labor theory of value, then there will be no wealth created because the state will ban free trade as the trade is seen as theft.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,467 Founders Club
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,188
    One of the differences is that one of those guys expressed hate based on the skin color of the people he murdered while the other did not.
  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967