This is not about Jussie Smollett. This is about what has been going on since the early nineties. Walk away! It's time to end this.

They can't walk away or end it. They're authoritarians. Pushing their authoritarian policies requires a level of racism and bigotry that just doesn't exist in the US. So, they have to lie and hoax, and play up the lies and hoaxes. Walking away would mean giving up their authoritarianism, and their entire world view is based on that. Hell, many of them are so invested in it that it's become a part of their core identity, literally, through intersectionality, identity politics, and virtue signalling their position on the progressive stack.