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re: Jussie Smollett Case - All Charges Dropped - Update
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:10 pm to Tester1216
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:10 pm to Tester1216
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When some observers pleaded for caution in the Smollett case, their prudence was condemned as bigotry. Rewire’s Kieran Scarlett called “the avalanche of speculation that he’s lying” an “attack” on Mr. Smollett’s black and gay identities. GQ’s Joshua Rivera said “America’s choice to embrace the blind rage of late-stage whiteness in decline is an explicit longing for this kind of crime.” Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and chief executive of Glaad, said the actor had been “doubly victimized” by the police investigation. When the conservative columnist Cameron Gray compiled a list of prominent politicians and entertainers blaming America’s political culture for Mr. Smollett’s ordeal, Representative Bobby Rush called it an attempt “to trivialize the attack.” As Mr. Rivera wrote in GQ, when the police described the attack as a “possible hate crime,” it was just another “wound inflicted on Smollett’s battered body.”
This is the bullshite that I'm talking about. Even the presumption of innocence or ambiguity is considered to be evil. These are the people that control culture, media, and a large chunk of politics. They're all a bunch of authoritarian dickbags.
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Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:15 pm to upgrayedd
I agree with you both.
I think that's why this story is so interesting to me. The power of the media and the political bigwigs is amazing and scary AF.
I think that's why this story is so interesting to me. The power of the media and the political bigwigs is amazing and scary AF.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:17 pm to Tester1216
As much as the hard left likes to talk about "speaking truth to power" or castigating people for "having positions of power" and nonsense of the like, they'll completely deny what the writer said here:
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This case is an object lesson in what happens when people in positions of political and cultural authority abandon critical thinking and pressure those who don’t abandon their circumspection under pain of being smeared as bigots. It also exemplifies the tendency of those arbiters to amplify “perfect crimes” that advance their political agenda — and to ignore crimes that don’t
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:19 pm to upgrayedd
This is exactly why Robin Roberts did that interview.
She left ethics and moral standards behind just to advance herself and I'm sure that's just how it was sold to her by her friend JS.
She left ethics and moral standards behind just to advance herself and I'm sure that's just how it was sold to her by her friend JS.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:20 pm to LSUGrrrl
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Can y’all just stop responding to him?
Or how about you mind your damn business.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:22 pm to dj30
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Or how about you mind your damn business.
This is a public message board. Everything on here is everyone's damn business.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:27 pm to upgrayedd
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GQ’s Joshua Rivera said "America’s choice to embrace the blind rage of late-stage whiteness in decline is an explicit longing for this kind of crime."
This is some fricked up shite. Just goes to show you how thought processes can be twisted to justify a worldview.
This post was edited on 2/19/19 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:27 pm to BayouCatFan
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According to Yahoo, he is being cut from his show Empire. LOL
I had read that part of the motivation for this thing in the first place was that he thought he was getting written out of the show...but the show said absolutely not. Now he's apparently created the one thing he thought was happening before in trying to prevent the thing that wasn't happening.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:28 pm to Tester1216
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She left ethics and moral standards behind just to advance herself and I'm sure that's just how it was sold to her by her friend JS.
I think she was legitimately blinded by her gay black friend because gay/black/lesbian causes are obviously near and dear to her heart. But, if you can't put those things aside and put your journalist hat on, then you shouldn't be a journalist.
Same thing with Kamala Harris the other day. The "journalists" following her were out clowning around and shopping together. The press has zero integrity anymore which is why it's hilarious to watch them lose their shite when Trump calls them out on it.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:29 pm to Sasquatch Smash
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This is some fricked up shite.
These are people that are influencing culture and thought these days. There are professors teaching generations of little tyrants that shite too
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:30 pm to fr33manator
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You get my point though, right?
It’s like comparing some country bumpkin preacher with 12 congregants to Creflo Dollar and his 64-million dollar jet and televangelism.
I do get your point, and it wasn't ever my intent to equate anything on broadcast media to my example with my dad. Simply it was to illustrate that a similar disinformation mindset driven by political persuasion exists on both sides.
But I digress. It's not worth going down the rabbit hole on it.
This post was edited on 2/19/19 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:38 pm to Chucktown_Badger
That would be great but I think the show denied it as to not give away the plot
Although the way this story has been going it might be true
Although the way this story has been going it might be true
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:39 pm to upgrayedd
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I think she was legitimately blinded by her gay black friend because gay/black/lesbian causes are obviously near and dear to her heart. But, if you can't put those things aside and put your journalist hat on, then you shouldn't be a journalist. Same thing with Kamala Harris the other day. The "journalists" following her were out clowning around and shopping together. The press has zero integrity anymore which is why it's hilarious to watch them lose their shite when Trump calls them out on it.
I said that before. I think she legit thought he was telling the truth which if so says a lot about her.
And as for Kamala, that was stupid on her part as well but she will be forgiven and if runs in 2020 against a Bernie or a Gillibrand, she will win.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:40 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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Simply it was to illustrate that a similar disinformation mindset driven by political persuasion exists on both sides.
It’s about scale though. The leftist mainstream propaganda is FAR more prevalent and invasive than the right wing, which is basically meme warfare
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:43 pm to saralsim
Mr. Geragos sometimes a leak is just a leak..He is trying to blame the cops for a set-up? That interview on GMA was better than a police report.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:47 pm to Athis
I think they're going to go with this angle and say it was to prove a point and was sort of an social experiment.
Outlandish but it will have to be.
Outlandish but it will have to be.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:47 pm to Tester1216
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No word on what grand jury decided. Still waiting. Attorney appeared to be holding back a smile when I asked “if true bill handed down in Jussie Smollett incident. . @cbschicago
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:48 pm to Glock17
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The two brothers questioned by police in the Jussie Smollett investigation, and their lawyer Gloria Schmidt have just left the grand jury room. They gave no comment.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:48 pm to Athis
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Mr. Geragos sometimes a leak is just a leak..He is trying to blame the cops for a set-up? That interview on GMA was better than a police report.
I think he's trying the only real angle he's got left.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:50 pm to Tester1216
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