When news broke on 29 January that Empire star Jussie Smollett had been brutally attacked in Chicago, it spread like wildfire on social media.
Attention wasn’t drawn just because the incident involved a popular TV star – it was also a racist, homophobic attack, with sinister elements involving a noose and talk of being “in Maga country”.
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