Let’s be clear: A hate crime did take place in Chicago. It’s an ongoing crime, too.
Yes, a hoax occurred -- more like two or three hoaxes -- but deliberately stoked racial animosity can’t be washed away with the forfeiture of a $10,000 bond, a few hours of dubious “community service,” or the sealing of public records in a criminal case.
If history has taught us anything, it’s that hate tends to fester, especially when aided by fraud and abetted by government....Although it’s a story line that only the conservative media seem to be following, it turns out that racial hoaxes are disturbingly commonplace in this country.
Worse, the mainstream media often stokes them, or in some cases, takes the lead in pushing them. Their very frequency suggests a couple of disquieting deductions:
First, in our victimhood culture the demand for such outrages may now exceed the supply.
Second, it turned out that Jussie Smollett may have understood the political zeitgeist far better than those outraged by his scam.
...Shortly after Donald Trump’s election as president, the venerable Washington Post adopted as its mantra “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
Some Trump supporters chafed at this slogan, seeing it as a subtle dig at their guy.
Maybe it is, but the newspaper’s sentiment is undeniably true.
In Chicago, democracy also dies in the daylight.
In the middle of the morning, in open court."
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