…is not so much that one actually be a victim…
…as it is that one successfully signals the various totems of modern victimology, and effetively controls the discussion (or has the discussion effectively controlled on one’s behalf).
Glad we’ve settled that.
It always comes down to Stuff White People Like.
And now it comes out that Smollett didn’t just file a false police report, but was found with drugs, and that was dropped, too. Guessin’ that not too many kids on the South Side got the same courtesy.