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Originally Posted by synth_floyd
So what is it about the video or his story that makes it seem fake? A lot of comments are saying "yeah you could tell he was lying and Robin Roberts seems really uncomfortable" but just watching this for the first time and if you pretend that you don't know he's making it all up I would never have come to that conclusion on my own.
I mean the details of the story are pretty sketchy: two homophobic maga supporters wearing ski masks at 2am at a subway recognized him as the Empire guy, and had a rope and bleach with them. And then he kept the rope on until the police came. And he was all over the place emotionally during the interview. Crying and angry at times, joking at other times. But I don't know if that's normal for him or for assault victims in general. But again, if it hadn't come out that the whole thing was faked I wouldn't have immediately thought "oh yeah he's faking it. what a faker. look at those crocodile tears"
Yeah it's mostly the details. I checked in on this thread on chiefsplanet when the Nigerian guys were arrested. CP was instantly on to the fact that the Nigerians were immediately released - which means they probably rolled. Those ****ers can actually be really smart when they want to, then sooooooo dumb when you try to explain **** like the motives behind voter ID laws.
I'm so pissed their broken clocks got a chance to be right on this one. Because that's literally all it takes to counteract every claim of hate attack for the next 10 years in their minds.
One thing I think humans are really bad at processing is massive severity or frequency discrepancies - at least when they're motivated to be biased of course. Sometimes you can almost pin them down on something - then a false equivalence of vanishingly rare frequency, or orders of magnitude less severity comes out - and boom - all square both sides do it too mannn.
I know I'll get heat for this but I still believe most of the posters on chiefsplanet at least try to convince themselves they're in the right. IE they aren't just white supremacist trolls (goofy just take a pass on this one please). You can almost pin them down on something and you can feel them wriggling - until some little lifeline comes along like this and then boom - forget it forever basically. Issue solved - all hate crimes are bull****.
Just like the Congressional shooter card, the Smollet card will be good for a decade+ with basically limitless plays in all situations.