repoman said:
Why do you trust this story?
Remember the Israeli teenager who was making all the threats against the Jewish community centers?
I don't trust it, but
not because I deny the clear fact that rise in homophobic white supremacy is the foundation of the MAGA cult, or that many of it's members would like to violently assault a black man like their statued heroes who fought for their beloved confederate flag did.
I don't trust the story based on current info, because the specific details seem implausible, namely that a couple of MAGAs went to downtown Chicago (far from MAGA country), where even at 2am there are always people on the street and cameras on every building, walked around with ski masks, a rope, and bleach, to track down a B-level celebrity that no one but an avid Empire fan would recognize. If it had occurred a couple hours south in rural IL against a random black person, it would be less fishy.
OTOH, I am still waiting for more information rather than concluding as you clearly have this is definitely a hoax. After all, it also isn't highly plausible that a person would risk their entire career by staging a hoax that is getting the FBI involved, and beat themselves up, just for some Twitter attention. So we need more info to decide, which unlikely event actually occurred.
Besides, it is actually the fact that aggressive white supremacy is the foundation of the MAGA cult that increases the likelihood that some sad individual would try and capitalize on those real racial tensions to pull off such a hoax. Just like that Israeli teenager was motivated to use hoax's of threats by the fact that such threats were so plausible, given the large increase in actual real threats and violence against Jews and Synagogues in the US since Trump's election. That includes the pro-slavery (aka "Confederacy") MAGAs in Charlottesville that Trump called "good people" who carried anti-semitic signs such as "Jews will not replace us." Remember the mass murdering white supremacist shooter of the Pittsburgh Synagogue who parroted Trump talking points about hordes of Honduran immigrants invading the US? He was just indicted yesterday for hate crimes.
But of course, you ignore the reality of the rise in anti-semitism and white supremacy and act like the rare isolated hoax that it gives rise to are indicative of their not being any real rise in white supremacy in the first place.
