Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/29/this-is-maga-country.html
UPDATE: Smollett lied, say cops: actor charged with filing false police report
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I should be surprised at thisā¦ Fuck 45 with a cactus for giving the okay for this kind of shit to happen again.
ETA not that it was completely gone but it sure didnāt get approval from anyone.
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Maybe activity this monstrous will be the one that can unequivocally be thought of as ānot niceā, and no one will step in to explain that itās just a quaint old custom, completely removed from any possibility of being racist.
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This is nauseating.
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Shit; Iād heard it was a hate crime, not that Maga assholes were involved, yet again.
In before all the devilās advocates, and fence sitters who will still try to find a way to defend this atrocious shit.
Jussie Smollett has a much bigger platform than Nathan Phillips; hopefully he utilizes this shitty assault against him to go even harder on his activism.
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Jussie Smollett also seems much harder to smear than Nathan Philips. But Iām sure theyāll try.
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You know thereās an airtight defence against this having any political impact: āfalse flagā and claims that antifa did this to cast āvirtuous MAGA supportersā in a bad light.
I hope the perpetrators are caught and unmasked as long-time, irrefutable MAGA folks who will force a real dialogue about these issues for once.
The situation with our American neighbours down south is utterly depressing. All the best to Mr. Smollett and my sympathies to the majority of Americans held hostage by this brutal, bigoted, yet empowered minority of degenerates.
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Because people totally set themselves up to be physically assaulted just to make the other side ālook bad.ā
The ālogicā is so twisted it makes me want to break something.
This happened in Chicago.
Bigotry is everywhere in the US; itās baked in to the foundation.
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Urgh. Thatās fucking vicious and nasty. I hope Smollett will be okay, and that the asshole attackers get caught.
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Weāre all southrons according to Canadians (ie the Wildlings!)! 
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You mean the Free Folk?
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Sorry. Clarified. Shouldnāt assume everyone remembers where I live.
Thanks!
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Thereās plenty of racism here in Canada too, we donāt get a pass.
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I can already hear the spin āwhat exactly was he doing out and about, alone on a cold night at 2 am? Iām sure he wasnāt visiting a sick friend, or coming home from a prayer meeting. It seems thereās more to this story that heās not telling us.ā
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I didnāt forget that youāre Canadian, itās just weird to hear the āhistoricā north referred to as ādown south.ā
Again, Iām from Ohio, where the difference is generally predicated on āStayed with the Unionā or āSeceded from the Union.ā
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These poor white men feeling extreme economic anxiety were just going about their business when they started to feel threatened by a lone man out roaming the streets, they went to investigate and smelled a faint skunky smell and could read all the signs of a man with outstanding warrants. Who will recognize these heroes that risked it all? Who!
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or Upper Mexicans as the wife and her friends up north like to say.
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Thatās probably clearer than basing it on the Soda/Cola/Pop regions.
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