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There's a lesson to be learned from this ... but we probably won't. thebulwark.com/jussie-smollet… via @BulwarkOnline

What we saw was a distinctive kind of virtue-signaling groupthink, where doubts were suppressed in the service of the greater wokeness.
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Smollett is black, gay, and outspokenly anti-Trump, so the attack was quickly framed as racist, homophobic, and political. In other words, Jussie Smollett was the Intersectional Victim Incarnate.
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If a story becomes the embodiment of our ideological narrative, doubts become subversive and disloyal.
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We live in an age in which our politics is less about ideas or principles than about dueling narratives; in which pitched battles are fought over memes and anecdotes of dubious provenance.
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