YOU DO IT TO YOURSELF, YOU DO, AND THAT'S WHAT REALLY HURTS

YOU DO IT TO YOURSELF, YOU DO, AND THAT'S WHAT REALLY HURTS

Over the last few weeks there has been a situation with an actor from the show Empire on Fox that, well, considering I don't watch the show, I really wasn't paying attention to it all that much. Well, the other day some new information came to light and, well, I think I need to chime in now.

As a society we constantly are looking for validation through the means of pity. It's really fucking sad and we should stop with it already. This sort of spoonie syndrome is a quick fix in getting attention that it's just not sustainable.. On top of that, what are you actually doing. You're making up bullshit at the cost of taking away actual sympathy for those who do suffer from these afflictions and so you're essentially doing some stolen valor shit up in here and that should be pointed out as high crimes.

We just live in a society where the "Look at me" crowd feels like that's the easier and faster way to get across in getting attention - something that seems to be the goal of most in this Instagram sort of world. And yeah, with all these easier means of standing on a soap box to scream out at the top of your lungs, it makes it that you can have a lot more ability to fake it for attention.

The problem with that is now many believe that the boy cried wolf one too many times and those who actually are vocalizing their issues get overlooked. The perception vs. the reality is all there. 

 Most of all, the reasoning for his staging of the hate crime attack was such a total fucking stupid idea to begin with, besides the fact that it was a dumb idea, the concept as to why he did it and what he hoped to get out of it is even more baffling. Actor Jussie Smollett had the attack staged because he was unhappy with his current pay rate on the Fox TV show and this attack would have bumped his face up a little more in terms of recognition. How fucking stupid is that shit? No one pays you more because of that shit. Most of all, you're standing on the backs of the people you paid to attack you for what? For interviews, a book deal or media outlet appearances and what? You just hoped that the attackers would never be caught?

This fucks up the world for a lot of folks who actually go through hate crimes. The far right is already using his instance as an example that "hate crimes" do not exist, well, they don't to them unless it's some inconvenience like causing them to get booted out of a liberal restaurant. The reality here is that of the 7,175 reported hate crimes nationwide in 2017, only 23 were fond to be false according to police and FBI data collected. In 2016, 16 of the 6,121 reported hate crimes turned out to be hoaxes. So you can see how this sort of situation and how much attention it is given in the media really paints a black eye for actual real life instances of hate crimes.

The same can be said about all those who fake illnesses or claim hardship that aren't really their own for the sake of attention and a moment of "Look at me!". It really gives the rest of it a black eye and perhaps we should be better about monitoring ourselves and not giving the attention to those who are clearly just doing it for that single reason.