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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
I think the kind of thing is this, that it suited a certain narrative
omg he is a gay black man
omg his attackers were racist trump fans
IT MUST BE TRUE
had it been a straight white man claiming he had been attacked by 2 black democrats i kind of think there would have been a lot less sympathy
certainly on here, for sure
would anyone disagree?
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Can you really say that though when people who didn't believe him in the last thread were sceptical for no solid reason other than they didn't like how the story framed a trump supporter as the attacker? They doubted him PURELY because of their agenda while others chose to believe him because that's how the facts lined up in that moment. They had no evidence of wrongdoing while there was footage of the staged attack which gave credence to Smollet's story. The narrative only really changed a few weeks later and the doubters had no real inkling that it would. It was just a lucky guess really.
Trying to frame empathy as pushing an agenda is quite something when you consider that the only real reason that doubt existed was because of a need to push an agenda in the first place.