Comments on: Another hate crime hoax? https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/30/another-hate-crime-hoax/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 02 Feb 2019 06:32:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/30/another-hate-crime-hoax/#comment-2421514 Sat, 02 Feb 2019 06:32:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84376#comment-2421514 A good summary of the case; doesn’t seem to have been any new data added today.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/jussie-smollett-case-not-adding-up/

]]> By: Harry https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/30/another-hate-crime-hoax/#comment-2421418 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 03:32:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84376#comment-2421418 Both wearing MAGA hats now of course….

]]> By: David G https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/30/another-hate-crime-hoax/#comment-2421409 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 02:31:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84376#comment-2421409 Yes Harry. I’m still waiting to hear if there was a white man twirling his handlebar mustache while a nearby dog snickered throughout the attack.

]]> By: Harry https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/30/another-hate-crime-hoax/#comment-2421389 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:33:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84376#comment-2421389 If this is a hoax?
Did you actually say “if this is a hoax”?

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/30/another-hate-crime-hoax/#comment-2421362 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:51:40 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84376#comment-2421362 Oh, and the two “persons of interest” are not wearing MAGA hats.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/30/another-hate-crime-hoax/#comment-2421360 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:50:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84376#comment-2421360 Still no supporting evidence as of now, except for those two people walking, all bundled up in the cold, holding no rope or container of something to throw, and with Smollett nowhere in sight. At this point, “not proved” is the best which can be said for his story.

]]> By: Ray https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/30/another-hate-crime-hoax/#comment-2421359 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:47:06 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84376#comment-2421359 It’s all Jussie Smollett’s fault. If you have ever gone to Subway at 2 AM for a sandwich you know that whites wearing ski masks and MAGA hats and carrying bottles of bleach and nooses loiter there. Not only that, but they are just looking for famous black actors to attack. He should have gone to Arby’s instead.

]]> By: David G https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/30/another-hate-crime-hoax/#comment-2421354 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:36:11 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84376#comment-2421354 What strikes me is how cartoonish the account of the encounter is, as if he met droogs out wandering the street for a bit of the ultraviolence.

One thing that has struck me in the descriptions of hoax encounters is just how cartoonish it all is, using a stereotype that belies the fact they neither know nor care about knowing someone who believes differently from them.

If this does turn out to be a hoax, you can bet the stereotype will live on and be used in future hoaxes.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/30/another-hate-crime-hoax/#comment-2421340 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 05:54:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84376#comment-2421340 Speaking of hoaxes….(via Instapundit today)

http://www.victoriataft.com/docs-reveal-portland-school-administrators-planned-paid-for-student-anti-gun-protest/

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/30/another-hate-crime-hoax/#comment-2421335 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 05:24:45 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84376#comment-2421335 https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2019/01/30/chicago-pd-provides-important-update-jussie-smollett-case/
“The images of the two potential persons of interest show them walking in the general area of where Smollett is. It does NOT show an assault. ”

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Two surveillance photos have been released of two dudes (unless I inappropriately misgendered them) walking down a sidewalk in black hoodies.
I’m sure identification will be forthcoming shortly.
Can’t be all that many people matching that description in Chicago.

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