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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJussie Smollett's alleged lies will bring great harm to innocent victims - Eugene Robinson
I hope actor Jussie Smollett gets the psychological help he apparently needs. And I hope authorities in Chicago throw the book at him, because the lies he is accused of telling will likely bring great harm to innocent victims.
Smolletts arrest Thursday for allegedly filing a false police report came as no surprise. His improbable tale he said he was accosted last month by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs, beat him up, put a noose around his neck and doused him with bleach, with one of the men saying, This is [Make America Great Again] country sounded like a page from the first draft of a rejected screenplay.
Real life doesnt happen that way. Actual white supremacists and homophobes dont stroll through the streets of Chicago on a bitterly cold night, carrying a hate-crimes kit of rope and Clorox, hoping to chance upon someone who is black, gay and modestly famous. They dont hurl perfectly scripted insults. They dont vanish without a trace.
The minute I heard Smolletts story, I suspected it would eventually fall apart and I feared the potential consequences for genuine victims of genuine hate crimes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jussie-smolletts-alleged-lies-will-bring-great-harm-to-innocent-victims/2019/02/21/aef262f2-3624-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html
samnsara
(17,622 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)ripcord
(5,372 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)dalton99a
(81,483 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,334 posts)So...police might not do their job properly because of Smollett? Huh.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,334 posts)was about the police.