Yet another "hate-crime" hoax

Jussie Smollett Faces Felony Charge, Accused of Faking Own Assault

Jussie Smollett, the “Empire” actor who said he was the victim of a hate crime, was charged Wednesday night with staging the assault he reported to Chicago police in January.

Law enforcement officials said a grand jury had heard evidence that Mr. Smollett falsely reported being attacked in a case that quickly drew national attention, and that local prosecutors had then charged him with a felony count of disorderly conduct.

Mr. Smollett, who is black and openly gay, had told the police that, while walking in downtown Chicago, he had been confronted by masked men who hurled homophobic and racial slurs at him, and announced it was “MAGA country,” a reference to President Trump’s campaign slogan.

www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/arts/television/jussie-smollett-attack-suspect.html

The Left's Demand For Oppression Has Exceeded The Supply

....It is a very unfortunate thing, then, to live in the most tolerant and open civilization in the history of the world while at the same time seeking validation and identity in oppression. The rash of fake hate crimes shows how desperate the victimhood mongers have become. But we need not limit ourselves to hate crime hoaxes.

Consider other recent events. A few weeks ago, the media spun a dramatic yarn about Catholic school students randomly accosting an innocent Native American man. This week, leftists on Twitter dusted off an offensive 50-year-old Playboy interview with John Wayne and spent the day scolding his corpse. Yesterday, feminists got very upset because the director of the upcoming "Ghostbusters" movie said he wanted to "give the movie back to the fans," which apparently is hurtful to women for some reason or another. Meanwhile, a performance of "The Vagina Monologues" was canceled because the show is now offensive to transgenders. I could go on.

The point is that the Left must now apparently dig up the dead or hire Nigerians if they want to be oppressed. They are reduced to searching for persecution in "Ghostbuster" films and renditions of "The Vagina Monologues." They are martyred even by facial expressions. They cannot just admit that we are the least racist, least sexist, least "homophobic," most open-minded and welcoming society to ever exist on Earth. Rather than express gratitude for the unearned privilege of living in by far the most accepting time and place imaginable, they go around turning over every rock and shining a flashlight into every crevice, hoping to find the faintest hint of something they can construe as bigotry. And if they cannot find it, they invent it themselves.

www.dailywire.com/news/43790/walsh-lefts-demand-oppression-has-exceeded-supply-matt-walsh