Berg’s Seventh And Twentieth Laws Never Need To Fabricate Any Truths
By Mitch Berg
Jussie Smolett was convicted of lying about being hate-crimed, three years ago, by a roaming band of Trump supporters. In downtown Chicago.
Most of the lefty commentators who proclaimed the case a damning indictment of American society were – “unexpectedly” – silent over the weekend.
And they may have been the smart ones.
Ja’Han Jones – a writer of sorts for MSNBC who is described as a “futurist and multimedia producer focused on culture and politics”, meaning pretty much someone who partied with the right people in college – warned conservatives about what we “should realize before they relish the Jussie Smollett verdict“.
Nonetheless, the strange, seemingly ever-changing details in the case have provided nearly three years’ worth of material for comedians and online commentators. Some of it has been quite funny, in fact.
Of course, there’s not a lot of there in the piece, which concludes:
Even more comical, in my view, was the predictable conservative outrage over Smollett’s allegations. Conservatives took to social media in 2019 to express outrage over the dropped charges. How dare someone make such a heinous claim about followers of their dear leader, they screeched. Violent, masked white guys who shout Trump slogans and use chemical agents to attack victims?
Many on the right shamed those of us who knew such a claim was totally plausible — and then the Jan. 6 insurrection happened.
And that’s it!
Of course, Berg’s Seventh Law applies. I’m sure there were conservatives that, after a decade and a half of watching hoax after hoax, and retraction after retraction of narrative-based claims of hate crimes, indulged in a bit of schadenfreud at a verdict that, had it not been on a case tried in crazy-blue Chicago, was utterly predicable to anyone with two brain cells to rub together to get some sparks.
But Jones is projecting, of course; it was everyone on the left – not just hoi polloi in comment sections, but an unbroken phalanx of blue-checks – who were dancing and cavorting about the usual chanting points; gut-shot to white cis-hetero privilege that this “hate crime” represented, the spotlight it still showed on the hatred that, they’d tell us, still roils beneath the surface of every honky.
Berg’s Twentieth Law – assume widely-publicized “hate crimes” are hoaxes until proven otherwise, which I obeyed in every particular even before I watched Smollett’s “alibi” crumble like a donut fresh out of a microwave – gave way to Berg’s Seventh Law; when the left accuses you fellow conservatives of moral turpitude, it’s almost invariably projecting.
Smollett’s verdict brings me no joy; we have a society that actively enables this sort of narcissistic showmanship, and uses it to further tribalize a society that doesn’t need any more.
December 13th, 2021 at 6:36 am
For the record, Mitch, I have microwaved a lot of doughnuts over the years and none of them crumbled. 😂
December 13th, 2021 at 6:48 am
Last Week Bari Weiss interviewed the guy who literally wrote the book on hate crime hoaxes:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jussie-smollett-and-hate-crime-hoaxes/id1570872415?i=1000544501012
One of the takeaways: the more high profile a hate crime is, the more likely it is to be a hoax. Makes sense when you think about it, the people who commit these hoaxes are after attention.
The ideology of the far left race hustlers requires that these not be hoaxes, so Al Sharpton still claims Tawana Brawley was gang raped by white cops, and #BLM still publicly supports Smollet’s claim that he was attacked by white Trump supporters.
If you believe that a woman can have a penis and a man can menstruate, what won’t you believe?
December 13th, 2021 at 7:05 am
Over the weekend, I saw for the first time Dave Chappelle’s routine about “the famous French actor, Jussie Smollet”. According to Chappelle, blacks didn’t believe JS either.
December 13th, 2021 at 8:03 am
And here I replaced the gun rack in my pickup with a bleach and noose rack, only to learn it was all a hoax. A little more honesty by the MSM would have spared me the expense.
December 13th, 2021 at 9:09 am
Oh, man, you had to bring that up. Now all the Clorox fanatics will be flaming the Ajax-lovers about which is the best bleach to keep in the truck in case you need to pour it over gay Black men.
And don’t even get me started on hemp versus nylon rope. No True White Supremacist uses nylon.
December 13th, 2021 at 9:29 am
Smollet is going to jail and yet Umbrella Man still walks the streets #WhiteRacism.
December 13th, 2021 at 11:25 am
If hiring two Black men, Africans at that, to stage a White supremacist hate crime wasn’t stupid enough, writing a personal check for their services was beyond idiotic. Talk about throwing your life away with both hands…
December 13th, 2021 at 12:37 pm
The worldview of the author is something to behold. Because, apparently, the rioters on January 6 responded to mace/pepper/tear gas used by Capitol police with bear spray of their own, just like is done by “Anti”-fa, evidently it was totally plausible that two Trump supporters would go out on a bitterly cold night wearing Trump ballcaps (frostbite city here we come!), and would put bleach on a guy going to get a sandwich at 2am.
Or, put differently, “because of the distorted implications of something that hadn’t happened yet, we were totally justified in believing Mr. Smollett.” Alrighty then.
December 14th, 2021 at 6:09 am
joe, I am with you on the rope thing. Nylon is just too…..oh, let’s not go there, but what upsets me is the wardrobe thing.
I mean, I always thought my caus’n mayhem outfit should be something out of the final act of Easy Rider. You know, greasy ball cap, torn t-shirt, stained jeans and of course, boots.
But how things change.
Look how those right-wing fanatics dressed to support Youngkin and those Patriot Front boys.
THEY WERE WEARING KHAKIS!!!
I’d rather join Antifa than wear khakis.