Another False Hate Crime: Actor Jussie Smollett's claim, that he was attacked while walking home after the bars closed in Chicago by white thugs wearing MAGA hats and shouting racist and homophobic slurs, fell apart over the weekend. This City Journal piece by Heather MacDonald notes that Smollett's fakery is just the latest example of the media and Trump-haters reflexively supporting such claims to validate the narrative American is awash with violent racial and sexist intolerance thanks to the President and his supporters. "Smollett made a not-irrational wager that a patently preposterous narrative about an anti-black, anti-gay hate crime at 2 A.M. in subzero Chicago would be embraced by the entirety of the mainstream media, leading Democratic politicians, Hollywood, and academia, with no one of these cohorts bothering to fact-check his narrative..." As usual, the wager paid off until others uncovered the facts.
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