All he accomplished was giving bigots an excuse to downplay real hate crimes.

Throw the book at him.

that's racist! :)

The same way "black lives matter" means white lives don't matter?

exactly.

white people are the true victims of racism.

team owners are oppressed in that they can't play :)

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The politics version of this meme has 8 upvotes and counting.

Conclusion: Hating Jussie Smollett is one of the impossibly few things we can all agree on. Sadly, unity on this is not an adequate basis for running a society.

Expectating society to run is unrealistic.

See? I've even lost my ability to spel.

I am conservative, and I generally believe that hate crimes are real by default, though I may think they are fake if there is strong evidence to suggest they are fake.