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In reply to the discussion: Why is it that Jesse Smollett's possible lie.... [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The statement of fact in question appears to be:
"There are a dozen or more posts per day about Jesse Smollett's possible lies, yet always few if any about those that actually died at the hands of the police."
Using the site search function here on OP's, it is readily apparent that there are not a dozen posts about Smollett's possible lies, let alone a dozen a day.
This is a straightforward statement of quantitative fact, and in quite a few of the instances it is simply not factually correct. Leaving aside discussions of BLM generally, which certainly spawned quite a lot of discussion at DU in the lead-up to the last election cycle, if one is interested in actual facts, instead of entirely subjective statements, one could apply one's remarkable skill of counting.
But just in terms of "mentions on DU" as a proxy for "attention", the numbers don't lie. Google can do the rough counting for you. Just picking a few names from the list:
1. "jussie smollett" site:democraticunderground.com
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=%22jussie+smollett%22+site%3Ademocraticunderground.com
About 160 results (0.41 seconds)
2. "Philando Castile" site:democraticunderground.com
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=%22Philando Castile%22+site%3Ademocraticunderground.com
About 288 results (0.35 seconds)
3. "Eric Garner" site:democraticunderground.com
About 510 results (0.37 seconds)
4. "Walter Scott" site:democraticunderground.com
About 210 results (0.38 seconds)
Eric Garner alone is mentioned 3 times more than Jussie Smollett in DU conversations.
Plus, the OP is specific to conversations about Smollett's apparent involvement with his alleged attackers, so the Smollett "mention score" would have to be reduced by the the number of mentions when, for example, the story broke and before it fell apart.
Smollett, of course, has nothing to do with the murders of black men by police officers, but is a figure from the entertainment world who would attract a certain amount of attention regardless of why he became suddenly newsworthy.
If we look at discussions of "Black Lives Matter" more generally at DU, the figure swamps anything having to do with Smollett by an order of magnitude:
5. "black lives matter" site:democraticunderground.com
About 2,550 results (0.37 seconds)
So, under what objective set of facts is SheShe "right"?
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