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This is disturbing. It's slowly becoming 1954 America again. There's a troubling documentary on Netflix about the resurgence of the Klan. What I took away from watching it besides a group of insecure people blaming others for their problems is that they should recruit members with some teeth.Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was attacked in the early morning hours on Tuesday in what Chicago police are calling a possible hate crime.
Smollett was attacked by two people "yelling out racial and homophobic slurs," according to police.
A representative for Smollett did not immediately return CNN's request for comment.
The offenders physically attacked Smollett and "poured an unknown chemical substance on the victim," police said.
According to police, one of Smollett's alleged attackers also put a rope around his neck. Both fled the scene.
Smollett took himself to Northwestern Hospital and "is in good condition," police said.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/entertainment/jussie-smollett-attack/index.html This is disturbing. It's slowly becoming 1954 America again. There's a troubling documentary on Netflix about the resurgence of the Klan. What I took away from watching it besides a group of insecure people blaming others for their problems is that they should recruit members with some teeth.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/entertainment/jussie-smollett-attack/index.html This is disturbing. It's slowly becoming 1954 America again. There's a troubling documentary on Netflix about the resurgence of the Klan. What I took away from watching it besides a group of insecure people blaming others for their problems is that they should recruit members with some teeth.
Its really sad that this thread topic despite trending worldwide on social media and the efforts to help smollett is growing by the minute, is not as popular as the topic is around the rest of the country/world. Shows you everything you need to know about this place and what's important here.
I am the fifth poster on this thread in 24 hours. What's the matter DP? Truth too hard to swallow?
Either that or people are posting in one of the other threads.
There's only one other thread that I'm counting. The other is a CT thread of people refusing to believe it, even though on social media all his friends are wishing him a speedy recovery and decrying racism. When you live in an alternate reality and your leader commands of you to live by the motto, "what you see and read isn't real," then you need your head examined.
So you just want to post in a thread where more people agree with you? Why not start one?
Its really sad that this thread topic despite trending worldwide on social media and the efforts to help smollett is growing by the minute, is not as popular as the topic is around the rest of the country/world. Shows you everything you need to know about this place and what's important here.
I am the fifth poster on this thread in 24 hours. What's the matter DP? Truth too hard to swallow?
In light of the recent BuzzFeed and Covington incidents, I'm going to let this marinate for a few days first.
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For those people who ignore or deny discrimination, who presume to tell racial, sexuality, and gender minorities that we imagine and exaggerate our fear, who claim that we live in a post-racial society, and who scoff at us when we get refused service at a bakery and thrown out of the military, we fight as if our lives depend on it because they do. Your silence is approval. Your explanations literally endanger our existence. We need your voices. The incident in the OP can never, ever happen in a civilized society. We have regressed to a terrifying and disgusting standard.
So you just want to post in a thread where more people agree with you? Why not start one?
I love the warped perception of the other threads. It's very telling. They absolutely aren't okay with something like this happening. They just aren't insane enough to believe this guy when zero evidence can be found in the preponderance of video cameras or at the scene or anything. God forbid that people want some evidence that this changing story (police say they had to clarify that there was no way for him to identify the race of the "attackers" and that the MAGA country wasn't actually said).
I would say guilty until proven innocent, but we don't even have any sign of potential persons of interest as the victim was the only one who saw anything.
As with all the others who are willing to look for the little details like evidence and corroboration, I still condemn anyone who might have attacked the actor and have no respect for racism in any form.
For those people who ignore or deny discrimination, who presume to tell racial, sexuality, and gender minorities that we imagine and exaggerate our fear, who claim that we live in a post-racial society, and who scoff at us when we get refused service at a bakery and thrown out of the military, we fight as if our lives depend on it because they do. Your silence is approval. Your explanations literally endanger our existence. We need your voices. The incident in the OP can never, ever happen in a civilized society. We have regressed to a terrifying and disgusting standard.
It's the same kind of person who calls female victims of sexual assault liars.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/29/entertainment/jussie-smollett-attack/index.html This is disturbing. It's slowly becoming 1954 America again. There's a troubling documentary on Netflix about the resurgence of the Klan. What I took away from watching it besides a group of insecure people blaming others for their problems is that they should recruit members with some teeth.
It takes a special kind of person to call the victim's own words and the responding police department's response "zero evidence". It's the same kind of person who calls female victims of sexual assault liars. The entire world is expressing support and well wishes for Smollett - except for DP posters.
So waiting for evidence or confirmation is ignoring discrimination ?
People are right to be suspicious giving all of the times these incidents have turned out to be hoaxes.
Smollett confirmed himself that the attack occurred. What more do you want to know?
Furthermore, even if there was any doubt that Smollett was assaulted, why would it not occur to you to say something like, "Whether or not this happened, what was described can never be tolerated."
Sorry, you're made up stories simply make us laugh.
Try something better than a couple of racist white dudes in MAGA hats with a death wish roaming around Chicago at 2am with some rope and bleach looking for some blacks to lynch.
I mean seriously, if you don't want everyone to think your side is a joke, stop falling for these ridiculously implausible stories.
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