Marvin49":2obmxteu said:The_Z_Man":2obmxteu said:Marvin49":2obmxteu said:Jussie Smollett? Please. That dude is a disgrace. He has done nothing but hurt the cause. He pisses me off because all his saga does is give people who wear red hats (this isn't pointed at you) something to point at and say its ALL BS. Its not.
What about people who wear blue hats? lol
There are many disgraces, Smollett is just one in a long line of hoaxes that have been perpetrated over the last few years.
I think the underlying problem is that the internet connecting everyone has made everyone feel "small", we are no longer in little ponds where every fish has their moment to be noticed, so the need to feel important has created a society where everyone needs to be special in some way, and if you aren't particular motivated or focused, or athletic, or talented, or pretty enough to make duck lips on Instagram, the best way you can achieve attention is by being more pathetic than someone else... hence the victim culture.
You see it every day on Facebook. Someone gets a frakking cold, you have to listen to a week of posts on how much they are suffering...
One wonders what Kaep might have achieved had he put more energy into being a better football player.
That's one way to looking about it, but people being beaten up and killed because of their sexual preference is a real thing. Someone PRETENDING it happened to them for some other gain is a huge disservice to the people it really happens to and personally its repugnant to me.
There is a certain brand of people who think a certain way politically who will grab hold of the Smollett story and use it is a dagger in any argument on this topic as if its the rule and not the exception. That does actual damage.
People will use 1 bad actor (no pun) working a real issue to their own benefit over the countless other victims and survivors of that issue. Apathy is a helluva drug and the fix is using bad actor examples to diminish and ignore issues.