Another Day, Another Hoax

As the Jussie Smollett “hate-crime” flim-flam falls apart, the Daily Caller has put together a list of some of the more sensational faux-racist hoaxes of the Trump era. You can read it here.

It was obvious from the beginning that this Smollett business was a sham. First of all, it took place in the middle of one of the bitterest nights of the winter; the temperature in Chicago that night dipped to -9° Fahrenheit (and Chicago is, let’s not forget, the “Windy City”). Nobody who would have been walking around in such conditions, no matter how truculently partisan, would have done so in a flimsy MAGA hat.

Second, it seems extremely unlikely that Mr. Smollett himself would have been out walking around at such an hour in such conditions.

Third, even if Mr. Smollett had decided to go out, he would likely have been so bundled up that it would have been awfully hard to recognize him on a dark street, even if you happen to know what he looks like.

Fourth, as the Chicago police themselves pointed out, it is distinctly unlikely that Trump-supporting “rednecks” would be watching Empire (the show Mr. Smollett was in), or would know who Mr. Smollett even is.

Fifth, Mr. Smollett’s account of the attack involved his being doused with bleach. Who on earth would walk around Chicago late at night, in nine-degree weather, carrying a bottle of bleach, just to be able to make a point in the event they were to run into a black homosexual celebrity?

Sixth, there was a noose. (Rule of thumb: if an alleged hate attack involves a noose, it’s a hoax.)

Seventh — and this may be shocking to Blue-team members who only know about America’s “deplorables” from news coverage, TV and movie depictions, and Op-Ed pieces that generally depict them as snarling, knuckle-dragging anthropoids with horns and a tail — Trump supporters are generally just decent, well-behaved conservative people who abhor civic unpleasantness, and would never dream of doing such a thing as Mr. Smollett described.

Eighth, here’s another rule of thumb that seems reliable after many years of this nonsense: if a story like this comes up — that is to say, a story that perfectly checks off all the stereotypical qualities that make up the prevailing caricature of the racist, heterosexual, Trumpist Christian white male devil — it’s a hoax.

The fact is, such things just don’t happen much. We don’t do that sort of thing, and for people on the Left to think we actually do is simply projection.

That we aren’t in fact like this at all is, quite obviously, a disappointment. The void must be filled, though, and so these people simply make things up. Some online observer — I wish I could remember who — summed it up perfectly. The existence of all these hoaxes, he said, demonstrates that the demand for racism and bigotry exceeds the supply.

10 Comments

  1. Whitewall says

    On target:
    https://www.city-journal.org/jussie-smollett-bigotry

    Posted February 19, 2019 at 9:17 pm | Permalink
  2. Malcolm says

    Thanks, Robert. Heather Mac Donald is spot-on as always.

    Posted February 19, 2019 at 10:25 pm | Permalink
  3. Thersites says

    Also, Chicago is decidedly not “MAGA Country” under any conceivable interpretation. Genuine right-wing hate crimes, rare as they are, tend to take place in red states, where the culture gives rightists self-confidence, and a willingness to defend their “turf” against perceived lefty interlopers. In contrast, conservatives who live and work in deep-blue urban centers learn to be diplomatic and reticent about politics, even if they grow more contemptuous in private. (I’ve had plenty of personal experience with this). MAGA bros in Chicago probably gripe about the Democrats in private clubs with veterans and off-duty cops, but never act like they own the streets.

    Posted February 20, 2019 at 12:28 am | Permalink
  4. JK says

    https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2019/02/its-happened-again.html

    Posted February 20, 2019 at 12:46 am | Permalink
  5. JK says

    https://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/02/hold-me-down-they-got-some-kind-of.html

    A birdy informs me “If true a postal inspector got involved that early – that person {the PI) would have directed some active surveillance.”

    I have seen in some reporting ‘Feds were present in the complainant’s questioning’ [the phoned in 911 piece] and if that is the case and *misstatements were uttered* … Well let me just conjecture, given what we’ve been witness to in the charging of the Mueller indictees, even if, the Rahmees would prefer otherwise, somebody is in for some unpleasantness.

    Posted February 20, 2019 at 1:38 pm | Permalink
  6. JK says

    https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2019/02/after-covington-helpful-reminder-from.html

    Posted February 20, 2019 at 7:44 pm | Permalink
  7. JK says

    Breaking News CNN Journalist Don Lemon with details at 8:00 pm Eastern!

    “I smollet a rat.”

    Posted February 20, 2019 at 8:34 pm | Permalink
  8. Up2L8 says

    Smollett arrested

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/21/entertainment/jussie-smollett-thursday/index.html

    Posted February 21, 2019 at 7:54 am | Permalink
  9. Whitewall says

    Gays are now having to attack themselves to get news coverage?

    Posted February 21, 2019 at 8:37 am | Permalink
  10. JK says

    Well Whitewall these days there’s a competition – and as yet there’s no consensus on whether to go with the ‘Fat Al’ or the ‘Skinny Sharpton’ statuette to use for awarding these sorts of things:

    https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2019/02/and-hate-crime-oscar-goes-to.html

    Given the intensity where monuments are concerned I’m sure you can commiserate.

    https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/shall-defend-common-history/

    Posted February 21, 2019 at 7:52 pm | Permalink

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