“This is MAGA country,” yelled two men in ski masks before placing a noose around the neck of actor and musician Jussie Smollett, beating him and pouring bleach on him.
It was a horrific hate crime, referencing Donald Trump‘s ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan, that shocked police and the world.
There was an outpouring of shock and love from fellow performers;
I’m just now hearing the news about the senseless hate attack on my #EMPiRE Nephew @JussieSmollett IM SO ANGRY AND HURT ABOUT THIS! THIS MUST STOP!! SPREAD LOVE NOT HATE! PRAYERS UP TO U NEPHEW! ????????????????♀️????????♀️ pic.twitter.com/p4GqfNW3An
— Vivica A. Fox (@MsVivicaFox) January 29, 2019
This is heartbreaking and terrifying…please pay attention to what’s happening here. Sending all my love to @JussieSmollett https://t.co/YTJ6bwLDkZ
— Zendaya (@Zendaya) January 29, 2019
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This is quite typical of the left really. Conservative politicians like Trump and Hanson are under siege. They will use any tactic for political gain.
No this is not typical. The reason that this is even a story is because it’s an unusual and atypical story. Trump and Hanson are not under siege. Do not make them out to be victims. They are divisive.
There must be many examples of this you can cite, being so typical. Care to post a few links?
I've posted a few in one of my other comments, you can have a look at them.
There are quite a few of them if you want to dig around.
They certainly aren't confined to the left though.
I saw those, I've have had a dig, I'd hardly call the examples I've found conducive of this being something "typical of the left."
"People will do stupid things to try to justify their beliefs" is hardly a partisan issue.
This is all just so strange. I don’t know what his motivation for staging such an attack would be. Some sort of weird attention seeking thing? I’ll be interested to see how this all plays out.
To damage trump obviously.
That’d be a pretty stupid way to do it. Trump says and does enough stupid things on his own without having to come up with fake stuff like this.
That may be, but there are a lot of examples of people doing it.
People sending themselves hate mail, doing graffiti on their own property, stuff like that.
Provide links.