Another day, another likely fake hate crime

[VinceBordenIII]

20 bucks it didn’t happen.

[VinceBordenIII]

“This is MAGA country!”

It’s like he’s never met a real white person.

[Who]

Thread of the year

[VinceBordenIII]

Reason says he never made those claims to police.

Newscom
Empire star Jussie Smollett is in the hospital after two people allegedly assaulted him on the streets of Chicago around 2:00 a.m. last night.

The police are investigating the attack as a hate crime, since the perpetrators reportedly made racist and homophobic slurs. Smollett is a gay black man.

https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/29/chic ... sion=true

[Who]

20 bucks it didn’t happen.

Yep, even then NPC's are steering clear of this thread. They know

Yeah that’s the reason

[Charliesheen]

Fake
as shit. Guaranteed.

[CaptQuint]

What kind of faggot name is Jussie?

[PimpDaddy]

Funny those quotes weren't listed in the original story.

[stymiegreen]

Gee....every conservative in the thread thinks its fake...who could've seen that coming?

Trolly gonna troll. Good luck with it.

[VinceBordenIII]

So many of these things are fake. College students writing slurs on their own dorm doors, etc.
Recently there was a defacing at a Jewish cemetery. Looked like cardboard cutouts had been carefully fit into the tombstone insets, and then those had been defaced. Thoughtful vandals.
In another incident, a professor came back to her office to find anti-whatever smears spray painted all over her office walls. But her art had been taken off the walls first. Maybe they were art lovers?

[CHEEZY17]

Chicago is MAGA country? lolz.

[stymiegreen]

Gay guy gets attacked and you guys are sluethy mofos doubting all the facts...questioning everything. Trump derps out some erroneous shit about fraudulent voters and you guys gobble that shit up like thanksgiving dinner. Fucking disingenuous frauds.

[stymiegreen]

Gee....every conservative in the thread thinks its fake...who could've seen that coming?

Trolly gonna troll. Good luck with it.

So no red flags for ya', eh?

You must be an easy mark for salespeople

What are the red flags other than you automatically assume every one of these stories are fake by default? There isn't enough information I've read other than there was an attack. Make sure to list out the red flags. TIA.

[Reservoir Dog]

"likely"

[stymiegreen]

Gee....every conservative in the thread thinks its fake...who could've seen that coming?

Trolly gonna troll. Good luck with it.

So no red flags for ya', eh?

You must be an easy mark for salespeople

What are the red flags other than you automatically assume every one of these stories are fake by default? There isn't enough information I've read other than there was an attack. Make sure to list out the red flags. TIA.

Roving gangs of white guys in ski masks carrying around bleach and nooses in order to defend MAGA country isnt enough to make you question?

Roving gangs? It was 2 dudes supposedly. He has a broken rib so I guess if its fake he jumped onto a curb or something? Like I said I didn't really think there was enough information to call "red flags". You literally call everyone of these stories fake so its not like you were deliberating anything...if you're right you'll call yourself nostradamus if you're wrong you'll just slink off with amnesia and proceed to call the next story like this "likely fake" as well.

[VinceBordenIII]

Gee....every conservative in the thread thinks its fake...who could've seen that coming?

Trolly gonna troll. Good luck with it.

So no red flags for ya', eh?

You must be an easy mark for salespeople

What are the red flags other than you automatically assume every one of these stories are fake by default? There isn't enough information I've read other than there was an attack. Make sure to list out the red flags. TIA.

For me, I just tend not to believe “on the nose” stories like this. They always seem to turn out to be fake. “This is MAGA country!”
C’mon.

It could be the conservative outlook: people are liars. No faith in the goodness or honesty of people.

[stymiegreen]

Gee....every conservative in the thread thinks its fake...who could've seen that coming?

Trolly gonna troll. Good luck with it.

So no red flags for ya', eh?

You must be an easy mark for salespeople

What are the red flags other than you automatically assume every one of these stories are fake by default? There isn't enough information I've read other than there was an attack. Make sure to list out the red flags. TIA.

For me, I just tend not to believe “on the nose” stories like this. They always seem to turn out to be fake. “This is MAGA country!”
C’mon.

It could be the conservative outlook: people are liars. No faith in the goodness or honesty of people.

If this was some rando dude making the claims then I'd be more likely to agree...for an actor on a hit show this would be a pretty cray move to pull and risk being shown to be a complete fabricator of the entire story. Doesn't mean its not possible...but there are some weird people doing weird shit like this kind of attack every day.

We also don't know if these are the claims directly out of the victims mouth or TMZ getting second hand info about the exact details of the attack. Odds are in this day and age this will be either corroborated or the story will fall apart pretty quickly. Biker doubted this story about 5 minutes after it hit the interwebs. Cause that's how he rolls.

[VinceBordenIII]

I doubted it as well. Then I read that the police say he never claimed it was MAGA dudes. Before I thought it was a simple melt.

[AnalHamster]

White racists just roaming around with ski masks and bleach to hand would be unlikely, but it turns out the po-po were already investigating a letter sent to the studio addressed to this guy containing cut out letters from magazines with the charming message 'you will die black fag'. That would indicate a targeted rather than random attack and explain the props.

[AnalHamster]

No, I wouldn't bet on this one. The letter looks like a toddler made it, still seems a bit fishy.

[CHEEZY17]

Chicago, the fucking Headquarters for corrupt Democrat politics, is MAGA country!!1!1

[VinceBordenIII]

White racists just roaming around with ski masks and bleach to hand would be unlikely, but it turns out the po-po were already investigating a letter sent to the studio addressed to this guy containing cut out letters from magazines with the charming message 'you will die black fag'. That would indicate a targeted rather than random attack and explain the props.

Who hates gays in this day and age (enough to send them hate mail and then go through with it)? I’m very interested to see the outcome of this.

[Stapes]

Sounds fishy for sure.

[AnalHamster]

White racists just roaming around with ski masks and bleach to hand would be unlikely, but it turns out the po-po were already investigating a letter sent to the studio addressed to this guy containing cut out letters from magazines with the charming message 'you will die black fag'. That would indicate a targeted rather than random attack and explain the props.

Who hates gays in this day and age (enough to send them hate mail and then go through with it)? I’m very interested to see the outcome of this.

Hating gays often goes hand in hand with white supremacy.

[Antknot]