(February 21, 2019 at 9:07 pm)PRJA93 Wrote:(February 21, 2019 at 7:17 pm)Yonadav Wrote: My problem is that the media keeps reporting that his motive was to get attention and cash in on that. They keep ascribing a profit motive to it. I think that his motive was to incite hatred. When someone false flags a hate crime to incite hatred-- that's a hate crime.In today's political climate, it's not surprising to think he might've hoped to get more pay after an incident like this.
But I agree and would also probably classify this as a hate crime in and of itself.
(February 21, 2019 at 7:22 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Fox News ain't going to let go of this for a while.Why should they let it go? Why shouldn't they "eat his lunch?" Jesse Smollett deserves everything he gets right now. What is Don Lemon's point? What's yours?
Don Lemon:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/...lunch.html
It's newsworthy but they will be using this as ammo for a very long time against the black community in much the same way as creatuonists like to remind us of fossil hoaxes to argue against evolution.
