Quick! Pop Quiz: Name the guy who a Chicago jury found guilty yesterday of faking a hate crime. Now, name the three men found guilty of killing Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia.
If you are a MAGAt, you got the question correctly but couldn’t name one of the three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery down in a pickup truck and murdered him. Hell, you may be a liberal and not be able to name all three men.
This is not to make excuses or defend Jussie Smollett who was found guilty by a Chicago jury yesterday on five counts of disorderly conduct. What Smullett did is not a good thing, but murder is a much more serious crime than disorderly conduct.
Should we be comparing these two crimes? Yes, we should. You may cry that I’m trying to deflect and distract from Jussie Smollett, but Jussie Smollett is a deflection…
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Of course he is a deflection. Those people are very consistant. There is only one side to every issue. Being factual, right, or wrong is not an issue with them.
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Hello Cagjr. The problem is I am already seeing the misleading right wing cartoons using Smollett as an excuse for doing horrible things to their enemies. Every person who tries to report a real attack will be labeled Jussie. The right will use it to cast doubt on the claims of abuse while doubling down on doing the abuse. Hugs
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You are exactly right, as usual, Scottie. I haven’t been to Go Comics for ar leasr a week, but I can imagine some of those folks reaction. It is not as though law enforcement has a positive record in responding hate crimes.
“LGBTQ people aren’t just physically harmed by others. The torment we are confronted with living in a heterosexist society takes a toll on us mentally as well. A 2021 study by the Williams Institute, a sexual orientation and gender identity think tank at the UCLA School of Law, found that 30 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual respondents ages 18 to 25 reported at least one suicide attempt. Last week, ABC News affiliate WKRN reported that 12-year-old Eli Fritchley died by suicide in Tennessee. According to his parents, his classmates, other 11- and 12-year-olds, often told him he was “going to go to hell” for being gay.”
I also hope that we understand that anti-gay violence is real. Racist violence is real. We shouldn’t let the hyped-up media circus that has surrounded this case from the beginning obscure that fact.
Michael Crawford, race, identity and culture writer
THINK 12/11/2021
If you haven’t, then read Michael’s article on Think. Not just Scottie, everybody.
We need to get together, folks. None of us several liberal communities acting alone will be able to do anything. We have got to concentrate our efforts to stave off this assault on democracy. If we are successsful, we may do it again in the future, but if we fail there will be no legal protections for our future. The only remedy then would be just as our Founders did, and rise up again to proclaim our independence from a theocracy or a dictatorship.
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Hello Cagjr. Well said. I would only add that once the rights of one group are successfully taken away any other group that displeases the authorities will face a similar fate. We need to stand together or fall separately to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin. Did you see that the virgin king of the beer keg Kavanaugh said that discrimination against ( the ) religion was the most odious discrimination of all. That white frat boy drunk credibly accused rapist thinks his religion needs to be protected more than real people who are killed because of bigotry and racism. I find it hard to lynch a religion or drive it to suicide, but I know you can do that to POC and LGBTQ+ people. But it is religion, ( the ) religion that cannot be infringed in anyway. Hugs
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LOVE your descriptions of Kavanaugh!!!
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Hey Nan. That is what Tengrain from https://mockpaperscissors.com/ calls him. The people on that site have really great wits. Hugs
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