[billorites]

Read the entire piece on Outline Here.

[ifinnegan]

“Today’s media storytelling has perfected a genre of intensely sentimental and spontaneously generated folk tales, especially stories dealing with race and sexuality. Social media and cable news pour forth vividly moralized tales that are sometimes true and sometimes not”

Yes.

[Liz]

EXCERPT---The very words “racist” and “homophobic” have been sanctified......and now possess a political
power, true or not, to be lobbed at perceived enemy lines like artillery shells. In his small mind, victim Smollett
is heroic. The oppressor is the one to blame......the victim is sitting pretty.......awaiting The Big Payoff.

Smollett's victimized personna fought like blazes to get a TV interview. ABC's GMA obliged him. Smollett
was a picture-perfect, fighting-mad victim as he spoke to an unblinking Robin Roberts on ABC's GMA.

Smollett reinvented himself as an especially fierce kind of victim...a cool hero. “I fought the f**k back,” he told fellow-believer Roberts.
And, miracle of miracles, while Smollett was fighting off hate-filled attackers, he never once lost control of his tuna sub sandwich.

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An ego-driven actor, Smollett craved attention. He invented a world full of "microaggressions and institutional racism"
that fed his malignant narcissism. In Smollett's bizarro world of entertainment, CGI creates impossible activist heroes.
Fighting off an invisible bigotry, creating a hate crime was his way to emulate these faked-up heroes, maybe get a bigger paycheck as The Victim.

The self-important Smollett was weaned at the breast of radical black activism. His mother (Maxine Waters says she's
her friend) associated with the Black Panthers and Black radical Angela Davis. Smollett has identified proudly
with the radical black activist tradition. What better way to promote himself?

[I want the USA back]

Good to bring it up again. The MSM has been suppressing it since the truth came out.
BTW, have they released smollett yet? — he has two get out of jail free cards.

[Verginius Rufus]

I once had a student refer to Stowe’s novel as “Uncle Tom’s Cabinet.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

Good article except the author apparently thinks Matthew Shepard was a victim of homophobic bigots.

Turns out hewas murdered by fellow gay prostitute and former lover Aaron McKinney because McKinney had heard that Shepard had access to a huge shipment of crystal meth (they were both meth pushers and users) and McKinney and his side-kick wanted both the drugs and the money.

This does not diminish the horror and cruelty of the way young Matthew Shepard was murdered. However, at this point even the left-wing Guardian (UK) has run a story explaining that drug and rentboy connections shared by both the victim and the perps, led to the grotesquely sadistic assault that killed him. It was a gay-on-gay, druggie-on-druggie crime.

Talking about Moral Sentimentality narratives?

Really, people need to check their facts.