Jussie Smollett, and the strange alchemy of egalitarian despotism | Spectator USA

Jussie Smollett, and the strange alchemy of egalitarian despotism | Spectator USA:

• The less hate there is in the United States, the more hate crimes must be manufactured in order to keep the Fraternal Order of Victims afloat

One of my favorite observations made by F. A. Hayek concerns the semantic detonations of the word ‘social.’ 
Especially pernicious, he noted, was the conjunction of the word ‘social’ with the word ‘justice.’ ‘Much the worst use of the word “social,”’ he wrote, and ‘one that wholly destroys the meaning of the word it qualifies, is in the almost universally used phrase “social justice.”’
There are, Hayek continued, other instances of this sort of ‘semantic fraud.’ 
...You could see this process at work in the spontaneous two minutes of hate directed at the MAGA-behatted students from Covington Catholic last month. 
The instant, hysterical pile-on against the boys was a marvel to behold. 
...Now we have the example of Jussie Smollett...
The outrage over this horrible hate crime was as instant and hysterical as that which greeted the unfortunate boys from Covington Catholic. 
Sens. Kamala Harris and Cory ‘Spartacus’ Booker spoke of ‘a modern day lynching.’ 
...Except, as all the world now knows, Jussie Smollett was not set-upon by Trump-supporting thugs..."
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