Yes, ‘This Is America, 2019’ By Victor Davis Hanson

[mystery-ak]

Yes, ‘This Is America, 2019’
By Victor Davis Hanson| February 24th, 2019

There have been so far about three general reactions to the concocted Jussie Smollett psychodrama.

One, and the most common, has been apprehension that Smollett’s lies will discredit future real incidents of hate crimes against gays and minorities. This could be a legitimate concern, given the tensions within a multiracial society.

Yet, in fact, there is no evidence in the past that false reports (some lists of such fake hate crimes put the number at around 400) have had such an effect—either on spiking real hate crimes, suppressing reporting, discouraging police investigations, or preventing even more race-crime hoaxes.

As Heather Mac Donald has recently once again noted, the 2017 upswing in reported hate crimes from the prior year may well be largely because an additional 1,000 police agencies were for the first time reporting such crimes. Mac Donald also notes that a “hate crime”—a micro percentage of reported violent crime—is narrowly defined not to include general interracial violent victimization, a category in which African-Americans on average commit 85 percent of such crimes.

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https://amgreatness.com/2019/02/24/yes-this-is-america-2019/

[goatprairie]

I'm still trying to get inside the twisted mind of Smollett. Here's an actor making over a million dollars a year who decides to concoct a hoax because of several possible factors (1) he's not satisfied with his salary and hopes a successful hoax will get him more dough (2) he hates white people or white conservatives and wishes to cause race riots getting white people killed (3) he's a member of a pity-party minority (black and homosexual) who wishes to somehow advance the cause. Or all three or a combination.
Many hoaxes have been constructed by people who were about to lose their jobs or some bad thing happened to them.
 Smollett was making a ton of money for a minimum of effort. Why take a chance on throwing it all away?

[dfwgator]

Just as there is "White Guilt", there is "Successful Black Guilt".