On January 29, 2019, Chicago Police opened a hate crime
investigation into the alleged assault of Empire actor Jussie Smollett.
Smollett, who is black and gay, alleged that two men approached him at 2 a.m.
in Chicago, where they shouted “f*****” and “n*****,” tried to wrap a noose
around his neck, and poured bleach on him. He also told TMZ that the men
shouted, “This is MAGA country.”
The story received unending press. The Speaker of the
House, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), tweeted, “The racist, homophobic attack on
[Smollett] is an affront to our humanity.” Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) called it
a “modern-day lynching.” Congresswoman and Fresh Face™ of the Democratic Party
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed anyone who questioned the story, tweeting,
“The attack was not ‘possibly’ homophobic. It was a racist and homophobic
attack.”
The media ran with the story. Good Morning America
hosted Smollett, where he maligned anyone who asked questions as a racist and a
homophobe. CNN’s Brooke Baldwin stated, “This is America in 2019.” Celebrities
parroted their support for Smollett, with many blaming President Trump and Vice
President Pence for the attack.
The story was a hoax.
That same night, a Jewish man in New York was beaten by
three thugs. Nothing was stolen. The attack was caught on video.
This isn’t the only story of anti-Semitism in New York.
Not by a long shot. Two weeks before that beating, a Jewish man, 19, was “violently assaulted” as he walked past a local laundromat by a
group of teenage black males. In December, a 16-year-old Jewish teen spent a
week in a hospital after being beaten by two other teens; witnesses said that
the teens screamed “Kill the Jew.” The
NYPD categorized the attack as “gang related” rather than a hate crime,
angering Jews in the area. This weekend, vandals shattered the window of a Chabad in Bushwick
as the rabbi and his family slept inside.
In fact, according to NBC New York, “The city has seen a
sharp increase in reported hate crimes so far in 2019, the NYPD said. Police
had investigated 42 hate crimes through Feb. 4, compared with 19 at the same
point last year. Most of those were anti-Semitic.” The New York Times
reported in October of last year that “there have been four times as many
crimes motivated by bias against Jews — 142 in all — as there have against
blacks. Hate crimes against Jews have outnumbered hate crimes targeted at
transgender people by a factor of 20.”
None of this has received media attention comparable to
the Smollett situation. Why? Because, as the Times also admitted in
October, “anti-Semitism bypasses consideration as a serious problem in New York
… because it refuses to conform to an easy narrative with a single ideological
enemy.” In other words, it doesn’t fit the narrative.
Indeed, the narrative the Left wishes to push is that
America is deeply discriminatory and bigoted, rife with hate. But by
statistics, Jews are by far the most likely group to be targeted in America on
a per
capita basis. This is a problem for the intersectionality-oriented Left,
which sees Jews not as victims but as part of the power hierarchy in the United
States. How can the Left uphold its hierarchy of victimhood if Jews are the
chief targets of hate crime – and furthermore, if such hate crime is largely
perpetrated by non-white supremacists, people who supposedly lie higher on the
victim hierarchy than Jews?
Furthermore, Jews are inordinately successful and
well-treated in the United States; outside of Israel, there is no more
philo-Semitic country on earth. So if Jews, the most statistically victimized
group in America, aren’t particularly victimized, what does that say about the
narrative of America as racist, bigotry-ridden hellhole?
The United States is an amazing place. But the media and
much of the Left don’t like that narrative. That’s why they cover Jussie
Smollett. And that’s why they won’t cover Jews being attacked on the streets of
New York.
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