Kristatos wrote:bjmdds wrote:‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett now ‘classified as a suspect’ in a criminal probe following attack claims, Chicago police say
Great. Now every genuine victim of a hate crime is going to have this thrown in their face for years.
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yes and no. I understand where kris is coming from, but it’s all media based. If a real MAGA hate crime happens on camera never fear it will be covered. However hate crimes against people of the correct ethnicity to normally trigger media fawning( Hispanic, black, native Indian, etc) will not be given a second though if they are the ones wearing the MAGA hat and liberal activist are the klans men in this scenario. Plenty of cases of real hate crimes ignored because the victims support what the media doesn’t.
Everyone likes to think it’s real simple like pointing out bigotry in the 1950s, SJW like to pretend they are marching in Selma with the real heroes facing the Democrats of that day who were weaponizing local government to keep discrimination legal.
In a fair society everyone who suffers any kind of attack qualifying as a hate crime should be equally protected, not selective enforced if the DA or chief of police likes the potential cause better than others.
I think Kris is worried that if something like this happens for real maybe not famous victim nobody will believe it or pay attention. It might happen Imho in the current social setting it’s more likely to be taken seriously than not. With the exception IMO that if it’s a gay black right leaning populist the media is more likely to savage the victim like used to be the case with rape victims at trial when they were attacked for daring to besmirch the Kennedy family, more recent look no further than Hillary 2016 and her continued attacks of her husbands victims. I remember reporters trying to dismiss Clinton accusers are being disproven when no such thing ever happened.
I don’t mean to make any of this political because to me it isn’t, it’s just the way I see it the people 70 years ago ignoring burning crosses in people yards are the same kind of people who don’t care when family is chased out of a restaurant for the crime of being associated with the trump White House, no matter how either is justified it’s wrong.
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