On Friday, I wrote an article about how the fallout of the Jussie Smollett scandal was going to create a negative backlash against black people. And it didn’t take long to be proven right. FOX News, the worst network in the history of TV news, is already using Smollett as a weapon to diminish all hate crimes. This was a point repeated by a person who posted a message on my original story.
It didn’t take me long to find out where this idea came from. I conducted some online research and soon came up with a FOX News story presented by one of their revolving cast of news models, claiming that most hate crimes are false, and there hasn’t been a rise in hate crimes.
Robby Soave, associate editor at Reason, snidely suggested that the idea of hate crimes rising was all in our heads. Soave also claimed the reason for the increasing numbers was because more police agencies were reporting statistics. Reason is a libertarian magazine, and libertarianism has often been called the starter kit for white supremacists. It’s not surprising that Ron and Sen. Rand Paul were popular among white nationalists. Libertarians believe the government should stay out of personal matters — even if that means you want to live in an all-white neighborhood.
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