Retired NFL star Michael Oher, whose supposed adoption out of grinding poverty by a wealthy, white family was immortalized in the 2009 movie “The Blind Side,” petitioned a Tennessee court Monday with allegations that a central element of the story was a lie concocted by the family to enrich itself at his expense.

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The story screamed “white savior” complex, they just say an opportunity to capitalize on Oher’s future while making themselves into fraudulent “heroes”.

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The fucked part, I don’t think they are pretending. They actually see themselves as heroes.

If the court brings the hammer, they’ll shift to being the victims.

These are people who life and die by “sincerely held beliefs” – pity sincerely held logic has no place in American discourse anymore.

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