['W: 998][W:371]Empire' star Jussie Smollett attacked in possible hate crime

HenryChinaski said:

Jussie Smollett attacked in possible hate crime - CNN

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.

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trixare4kids said:

Crickets

You got one thing right... This IS disturbing but not for the reasons you stated above.
Now don't you feel embarrassed for rushing to judgment?

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MateoMtnClimber said:

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.

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Atomic Kid said:

Is Tawana Brawley the subject of this thread?

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MateoMtnClimber said:

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.

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Roadvirus said:

No, but the fraudulent accusations are the same.

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ludin said:

when do they ever do that?
they simply move on to the next morale outrage that
triggers them until that turns out to be false as well.

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NeverTrump said:

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?

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ludin said:

actually filing a false police report is a crime in pretty much every state.

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Roadvirus said:

We'll see if CPD actually follows through on arresting him for it.

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Roadvirus said:

No, but the fraudulent accusations are the same.

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MateoMtnClimber said:

What a foul proposition. What is there to disagree about? A gay, black man was called racist and homophobic slurs, beaten in the street, and had bleach poured on him and a noose wrapped around his neck. I haven't seen the other thread NeverTrump mentioned, but I am thoroughly revolted that it exists. There is nothing to debate here among decent human beings.

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Acadia said:

I think the chances of what happened to Smollett occurring in the same place and time in which the Nigerian brothers just happened to be out at 2am in the freezing cold in Chicago are infinitesimal. Besides, it's looking like police know the brothers bought the rope that wound up around Smollett's neck.
Follow this guy. Good source and info

Rafer Weigel (@RaferWeigel) | Twitter

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Atomic Kid said:

Seems like you can't wait to prove everyday here that you don't know what you're talking about. There's no ****ing way they would ever have let those two men walk out entirely scot free if they had had anything to do whatsoever with staging a hoax in order to generate a false police report of a crime. TMZ reported that detectives found the men by looking at ride-sharing history records from the night of the attack. In light of all the false reports being generated I don't blame him for obtaining counsel. History has shown that he would be foolish to rely solely on the good will of the Chicago police and courts.

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MateoMtnClimber said:

Do you want the man's ****ing hospital records? The evidence that you and people like you conveniently ignore when crimes against women and other minorities occur is, in this case, Smollett saying that it happened. He reported it to the police. He received medical attention for it. To believe that a famous man with everything to lose would make up a story about a hate crime as grotesque as the one he described is willful denial for disgusting reasons and nothing more.

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Fenton said:

How effing stupid is Smollett ? Or is it how effing stupid does he think the average American is ?

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MateoMtnClimber said:

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.

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Fletch said:

What is that supposed to mean?

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dobieg said:

Where did all our liberal friends go?


I thought it was very important to have this discussion?








Please come back so we can talk about this more.

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trixare4kids said:

:funny

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Fenton said:

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