SIO181: The Jussie Smollett Story
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Jussie Smollett told the world he was the victim of a hate crime. What happened next, according to the right, is a bunch of insectional libtards believed his obviously false story because of the oppression olympics, or something. For example, check out this SJW's reaction to the news. In the midst of my research on this story, Smollett has been officially charged with making a false statement. It was initially reported that a grand jury indicted him so that's what I said in the episode, but that was corrected to say he was charged by the prosecutor. There is a lot to talk about regarding the reaction to this. I want to argue that the message to believe victims is perfectly compatible with believing someone like Dr. Ford and not believing Smollett.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries Only. This is episode 181. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm your host Thomas Smith, and I've got so much |
| 0:37.1 | I want to tell you about today. |
| 0:38.4 | I want to talk about a number of things. |
| 0:40.8 | It's interesting, this episode did get preempted a little bit. I was a knee-deep in research and hours of research on this Jesse Smollett story and I was prepared to go out on a limb and say this sounds like BS to me I don't know how much of a limb that is |
| 0:56.7 | But in the middle of that like right as I was about to record the police announced that he's now officially a suspect for |
| 1:05.0 | fabricating a police report and so it it seems as though the evidence is leaning |
| 1:10.9 | that way now maybe still people will think that the police are |
| 1:13.9 | wrong and so I'm still going to talk about that a little but I also I have so much to say about the |
| 1:18.9 | response to this either way and I think I've got some good arguments that you're going to want to hear. |
| 1:25.0 | There's a particular thing that I've noticed that I just finally, I think, |
| 1:32.0 | conceptualized a good answer to, so it'll be very important to talk about that. |
| 1:35.6 | I do want to do something first though. This is a bit of a follow-up from the last episode, |
| 1:40.8 | something I remembered and I think is maybe useful in thinking |
| 1:44.4 | about this and in arguing with people about it. You know again a lot of the |
| 1:49.0 | pushback about that Liam Neeson apology and about other apologies that in my view have been totally |
| 1:56.9 | subpar and not things we should accept. I just remembered something about |
| 2:02.3 | Jason Mamoa and this will get a little murky here but I think it's useful. |
| 2:08.2 | So the counter argument that I saw Seth Andrews make and a lot of people make is I'll do nothing no |
| 2:14.5 | some people be upset no matter what there's nothing Liam Nees and can we said he |
| 2:17.4 | regretted it that's good enough nobody you know like some people are just so |
| 2:21.5 | they want the peer they're the purity police you know they keep |
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