Heather Mac Donald: Jussie Smollett and "The Frenzied Search For Racism"
The truth: as instances of actual racism get harder and harder to find, the search to find such bigotry becomes increasingly frenzied and unmoored from reality.
posted by Winston Smith at
10:02 PM
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Yah know, I can't get too upset about this. Yes, hoaxes like this are bad--not to mention terrible own-goals. But I am currently more interested in this case:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/self-proclaimed-white-nationalist-planned-mass-terror-attack-government-says-i-am-dreaming-of-a-way-to-kill-almost-every-last-person-on-earth/2019/02/20/61daf6b8-3544-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.3d7d21901909
Evidence that the Smollett coverage was frenzied? It was mentioned a bit before the big reveal. The coverage that it was a fraud is starting to seem frenzied, to be sure.
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