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Jussie Smollett - The Weaponizing of Faux-Victimhood (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_337)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is God Sad at Saturday night I'm about to get on the exercise

0:06.8

machine for the second time today just finished dinner but I had to take a

0:11.0

break and come and talk to you for a moment because the story just broke a few minutes ago about 15 minutes ago on CNN so you can't if you're an ultra progressive you can't argue that it's Brightbard news or Fox News

0:27.8

they're lying it's a right-wing conspiracy this is CNN reporting the following.

0:33.0

Let me just read for you the headline and I'll put this link in the description section of this video.

0:40.0

Police reports, new evidence suggests Jesse Smollett orchestrated attack.

0:47.6

And then the first sentence, two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation told CNN that Chicago police believe Jesse Smollett paid two men to orchestrate the assault.

1:09.5

Now many of you know that in seeking to explain the mass hysteria associated to Trump's election in 2016, I coined a collective malady as

1:19.3

collective munchhausen. Not a me go back and explain this again to those of you who may not be familiar with it.

1:26.0

Munchhausen syndrome is a psychiatric disorder wherein someone feigns a medical condition to garner empathy and sympathy.

1:36.0

Munchhausen syndrome by proxy is where a person takes someone who is under their care, typically a biological child, a pet, an elderly parent,

1:48.0

and harms them to garner sympathy or empathy.

1:52.0

And so I had written a paper in a medical journal back in 2010

1:55.2

where I was trying to discuss some of the reasons

2:00.0

that might, evolutionary reasons that might explain

2:02.0

why biological mothers would engage or would exhibit

2:08.7

Muschhausen's syndrome by proxy with their biological children. And that's what led to my eventually coining the term collective Munchhausen in reference to the mass hysteria,

2:21.0

whereby everybody was testifying about being a prospective victim.

2:27.0

I am a woman of color that goes to Wellesley College and now that Trump has won I no longer feel safe will I still

2:36.4

be able to go to school and this is what led to my satire, you know, hiding under the table where I was satirizing

2:46.5

precisely this type of faux victimhood narrative.

2:51.6

Now it's one thing to just be an obnoxious

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