How bizarre. Funny that a lot of people sniffed it out as a hoax immediately. Wish I could remember what if any thoughts I had about it but covid erased all my memories of the year of our lord 2019
I think at least one of them yeah.
My dad owned me on that one tbh
You should double down
don’t back dun - double dun.
Doon*
I sniffed it out immediately and was banned from reddit for hate speech lol.
The idea that racist maga bros were riding around in a truck in the middle of Chicago (carrying a pre-made noose) and they recognized a b-list actor from a black tv show to assault.... ludicrous.
It’s a liberals idea of what a racist would do. It was the same thing with the UVA frat rape story. It was very clearly just fiction passed as truth to anyone who didn’t want to have something fit their narrative
Nooses in particular seem to be more of a fixation among black people than among white racists. I'm sure some hicks were using them in earnest back in the day, but every time I've heard of noose symbolism in a contemporary context it's been a hoax or false alarm.
Yeah, hate crime fakers always incorporate hundreds of years of symbolism and imagery into their hoaxes because they think racists sit around and read The Turner Diaries or something and think "Ah, yeah, this 'Day of the Rope' stuff sounds great, I should go do that now to the first (boop) I see!"
In reality, most "hate crimes" occur when, like, a Mexican guy cuts someone off in traffic and as the other driver is punching said Mexican man in the face for being a shitty driver, he yells a slur
“Empire!!” 🫵🏻
I followed the whole thing on a web forum and every once in a while I'll go back and read those comments and laugh at the ones who actually thought it was perfectly legitimate that MAGA's were combing the streets of Chicago in the middle of the night during a Polar Vortex hunting for an actor none of them would have ever heard of.
Good times...
Hey, empire!
The streets of Streeterville no less (pretty high end high rise area downtown filled with yuppies and Asians)
That shit was so dumb lmao. I’m from Illinois and exactly zero of our rightoids consider any part of Chicago to be “maga country.”
Legend has it Ellen page is still fervently defending it to this day
Truly tough to watch
So embarrassing.
I remember sometime after covid jon stewart went on colbert’s show and said he thought the virus originated in the covid lab in wuhan and colbert pissed and shitted and cumed at the idea of that.
The non racist origin story being some chinese dude ate a bat
People also got pissed at Jon Stewart for saying Biden was looking really bad like 4 months ago, now everyone’s hopped on that train too
That was one of the weirdest things.
"You think this novel mystery virus came from a virology lab that was experimenting on coranaviruses? Fucking racist, it's from all the crazy stuff those people eat"
How is that any less racist tho? You're assuming the virus happened because dem Chaineez bois eatin weird shit.
She had her own highly dubious encounter a couple of years later. "I'm going to fucking gay bash you", said her alleged assailant, exactly the sort of language homophobes use
had to change her identity to escape the shame of that goofball take.
im more than down to meme #JusticeForJussie back into existence and act like every single detail was true
This was like the next big news story after the Covington Catholic smirking teen thing. The vibes were especially off in early 2019
There was a fire too
remember when he took it upon himself to exclaim in the court room that he was not suicidal, as if he was some martyr-to-be who was important enough to be killled in jail? he’s just not serious people
Will never forget the next day when he was performing on stage and then begged to be shot declaring “I’m the gay Tupac!”
Sounds like stimulant behavior
The milk thing really topped it off, probably just watched American History X
charles barkley had the best take
He really would’ve been better off going to Liam Nessons house
Did we ever get an answer to why he paid 2 Nigerians to do whiteface when assaulting him? Could he not find a white person or extraordinarily light-skinned Latinx willing to do the job?
He was having gay for pay sex with them so it was convenient.
Now that you mention it this DOES sound an awful lot like meth
Yeah, 2 AM too. It’s definitely a meth idea
Remember??? It's basically all I think about
This mf is getting a 5 part docuseries about his own hoax starring himself on Fox, he is unstoppable
It’s crazy that it was the sand year as the R Kelly interview
I didn’t really care that he made it up, just extremely curious as to why. He was on a black famous tv show, his sister is successful as well so there must be some family connections. Why put such a dark mark on your career so young?
One of my first blackpills, the whole "yeah it was false but it's still fucked up that you immediately didn't believe him" thing was shocking for teenage me
You're probably like 4 years older than me
It's so funny looking back at all the news coverage that didn't update the story after it was revealed to be a fraud and all the undeleted tweets they reference
Dave Chapelle had a good bit on it
Wasn't he also fucking the two ripped nigerian guys he paid to perpetrate the hoax with him? Or am I misremembering and/or mixing reality up with ct bits again