I know that, really, with each of the high profile verdicts of the last couple of months coming in people are trying to fit the results into a larger political narrative.
I don't think that Smollett being found guilty should give any profound insight about a broad political picture.
Is it really a revelation to you that people lie about stuff when they think that it'll help them get ahead? I guess it is for some people; but, if that does surprise you, that's not a larger political narrative being revealed or adjusted - that's you living in a bubble.
Is it surprising to you that some people are so politically blind that they're willing to believe anything that they're told, double-down when the evidence starts crumbling, and start slandering the people who ask questions? This seems like business as normal.
Would it surprise anyone that a minority of people will use this story as a reason to try to discredit any future accounts of people being assaulted? Of course it's going to happen.
If there's something to be not so much learned but reiterated it's that truth should always trounce politics and justice is predicated on truth. That should be a lesson that every adult had already learned and we shouldn't need Jussie Smollett to have learned it.
I can't remember since when, but when such high-profile cases arise, I remain skeptical.
I remember such a case in Quebec (Canada), where a well-known music producer was accused of pedophilia. I waited for the facts to unfold, and they proved to be true.
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