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On a serious note; the damage he's done to both his own career, AND to the plight of genuine victims of racist / homophobic attacks, is utterly staggering. Genuinely criminal. People obviously ARE attacked like this and these crimes are already under-reported because of not being believed. This fellow's actions are going to make that so much worse now. I can almost hear the crows of "Pfffft probably LIES, remember Smollett" already, the next time a news story about a hate crime comes up.