It is always interesting, and incredibly ridiculous, when people try to use one issue to justify and absolve a totally different issue.
Almost sad, really.
If two (white) thugs had actually done what was being alleged here, would people still be so quick to 'let them off'.
I do not believe that for one tiny millisecond.
Smollett committed a hate crime.
He should be behind bars, as anyone else who commits a hate crime should be.
And, nothing else should factor in.
Not even his mental health....
Somebody mentioned some kind of psychological issues or something.
What?????
He doesn't have any real psychological, developmental, issues.
He is a person who is filled with Narcissism and HATRED.
It is what it is.
And, yet instead of being held accountable, he is being let off in a clear miscarriage of justice. And, now he will be celebrated and applauded. It is one warped alternate universe out there.