If it wasn't for fake hate crimes there might be none at all

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19 Feb 2019, 3:36 pm

AspE wrote:

Hate crimes still exist.

Of course hate crimes exist...duh! :mrgreen:

But it has been definitively determined this was not one of them...

The topic was not meant to be taken literally...

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hyperbole
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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. https://www.google.com/search?q=Hyperbo ... e&ie=UTF-8

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19 Feb 2019, 3:37 pm

Fnord wrote:

Yeah, they're okay, Drake. My only beef with them is that there are so few really noteworthy "happy fun time" news stories to publish, that sometimes the same news story will remain on their pages for weeks at a time.

That's a shame. I have read the about us part of the Good News Network and that's just the kind of words I like to hear, talking about my own frustrations with news organisations.

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19 Feb 2019, 3:41 pm

MaxE wrote:

You call this fake?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-leaves-11-dead-and-6-wounded-suspect-hit-with-multiple-charges

You've certainly pushed the envelope to an unprecedented degree. What next?

What?
Are you autistic or sumthink? :mrgreen:

The subject line was not meant to be taken literally... :wink:

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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19 Feb 2019, 3:49 pm

lit·er·al·ly
Dictionary result for literally
/ˈlidərəlē,ˈlitrəlē/
adverb

INFORMAL
used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true.
"I was literally blown away by the response I got"

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19 Feb 2019, 7:40 pm

DanielW wrote:

You are mixing context... :wink:

And since I introduced the term/word, mine is the dominant and valid context in my post...
What you have posted, assuming it was directed at me, is an unintended "straw man" through a contextual misappropriation, I believe... :wink:

"Literally", in a different context (e.g. hyperbole) can be used as emphasis via exaggeration, but like I said, that isn't the way I used it above...

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literally:
1In a literal manner or sense; exactly.

Usage
In its standard use literally means ‘in a literal sense, as opposed to a non-literal or exaggerated sense’, as for example in I told him I never wanted to see him again, but I didn't expect him to take it literally. In recent years an extended use of literally (and also literal) has become very common, where literally (or literal) is used deliberately in non-literal contexts, for added effect, as in they bought the car and literally ran it into the ground. This use can lead to unintentional humorous effects (we were literally killing ourselves laughing) and is not acceptable in formal contexts, though it is widespread

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19 Feb 2019, 8:09 pm

https://youtu.be/Cc13HIeIkTc

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19 Feb 2019, 9:11 pm

The Frenzied Search for Racism
Elites bought Jussie Smollett’s story because it confirmed their cherished narrative about a hateful America.

The Jussie Smollett case, in which a young black, gay actor has apparently concocted a tale of being attacked by two white men wearing MAGA hats and shouting anti-gay slurs, is just the latest example of how desperately media elites want to confirm their favored narrative about America: that the country is endemically and lethally racist, sexist, and homophobic, and that the election of Donald Trump both proves and reinforces such bigotry.

The truth: as instances of actual racism get harder and harder to find, the search to find such bigotry becomes increasingly frenzied and unmoored from reality.

Smollett made a not-irrational wager that a patently preposterous narrative about an anti-black, anti-gay hate crime at 2 A.M. in subzero Chicago would be embraced by virtually the entirety of the mainstream media, leading Democratic politicians, Hollywood, and academia, with no one in these cohorts bothering to fact-check his narrative or entertain even armchair skepticism toward it. He also presumed, again with good reason, that to claim victim status would catapult him to the highest echelons of public admiration and accomplishment. And he was right. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker called it a “modern-day lynching.” Joe Biden warned that “we must no longer give this hate safe harbor,” his implication being that we need to stop winking at such racist attacks. If Beale Street Could Talk’s Barry Jenkins lamented, “This what all that hateful mongering has wrought. Are you PROUD???” Good Morning America interviewed Smollett without asking a single critical question about his story.

https://www.city-journal.org/jussie-smollett-bigotry

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19 Feb 2019, 9:22 pm

There are indeed a lot of hate crimes going on -- from leftists who enter full derangement when they see a red hat, like this guy who pulled a gun on a Trump supporter in a discount store because of his hat.

Man accused of pulling gun on victim wearing MAGA hat

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) -- A Tennessee man is in jail after being accused of pulling a gun on a Sam's Club customer Saturday.

According to the police report, officers were called to Sam's Club due to a person with a gun.

According to the alleged victim Terry Pierce, a man pulled a gun on him because he was wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat.

"I have as much right to wear that hat and support my country and my president as he has not to," said Pierce.

The police report confirms that the suspect, identified as James Phillips, admitted to flipping off Pierce and Pierce's wife because of their hats.

Pierce tells 13 News that he was shopping with his wife when Phillips "Pulled a .40 caliber out and stuck it in my face, backed up and said, 'It's a good day for you to die.'"

https://www.wbko.com/content/news/Man-a ... 71901.html

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19 Feb 2019, 9:47 pm

Smollett should go to jail for a long time.

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20 Feb 2019, 5:50 pm

Jussie Smollett has been officially classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation for allegedly filling a false police report ... a Class 4 felony ...

Source: This CNN Article

Smollett should go to jail for a VERY long time.

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20 Feb 2019, 5:54 pm

Class 4 Felony
1-3 years possible imprisonment
fines up to $25,000

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20 Feb 2019, 5:57 pm

BTDT wrote:

Class 4 Felony
1-3 years possible imprisonment
fines up to $25,000

That's all?

Bummer.

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20 Feb 2019, 6:02 pm

Couldn't it be increased as it was a 'hate crime' after all :twisted:

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