ウィル・ウィトンのインスタグラム(itswilwheaton) - 2月22日 05時46分

I have been reluctant to say anything about this, because the victory laps the right wing trolls are taking right now are sickening, but this is too important to ignore.

I want to be very clear. I don’t write this to appease the MAGA trolls who have been flooding my mentions all over the Internet with their self-righteous demands for comment. I write this because truth and honesty matters, and because I feel a responsibility to hold myself accountable when new evidence emerges that calls a narrative that I helped amplify into doubt.
I stood with Jussie Smollett because he described a hate crime, perpetrated by assailants who attacked him because of his race and sexual orientation. I stood with him the way I stand with anyone who is the victim of a hate crime, because we must do everything we can to end hate crimes. We must create a world where hate crimes are rare, where their victims feel safe and supported when they speak out, and the people who perpetrate them are held accountable.

As reports began to emerge that called his story into question, I've been reluctant to say anything, because I hoped against hope that he wasn't lying. I didn't want to believe it for a lot of reasons, chief among them being if he turned out to be lying, it would hurt and potentially revictimize the survivors of actual violence, who will now have their stories and experiences cast into doubt by the whataboutists online and elsewhere who don't seek truth, but seek to hurt and minimize victims and their experiences.

With each passing hour, it becomes clear that he staged this entire thing to get more money (apparently nearly 80K a week wasn't enough for him) and sympathetic publicity. If this is true, he should be punished to the full extent of the law. He has hurt people who were *actual* victims of hate crimes, and he has given the whataboutists something to latch onto for *years* to come.

I don't regret standing with someone who we believed was a victim of a hate crime. In fact, I am proud to stand with victims and to hold their abusers accountable. But I am disgusted with Jussie Smollett for lying about something so serious, for such a petty and selfish reason.

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