If I went to Germany and made up, to the entire world, a story about neo-nazis attacking me, I'd be asked to clarify and, if I were lying, be held accountable for perpetuating such harmful stereotypes.
If I went to Saudi Arabia and made up, to the entire world, a story about muslim fundamentalists attacking me, I'd be asked to clarify and, if I were lying, be held accountable for perpetuating such harmful stereotypes.
If I went to the US and made up, to the entire world, a story about gangs or southern militia racists attacking me, I'd be asked to clarify and, if I were lying, be held accountable for perpetuating such harmful stereotypes.
If I went to the UK and made up, to the entire world, a story about hooligans attacking me, I'd be asked to clarify and, if I were lying, be held accountable for perpetuating such harmful stereotypes.
If I went to China and made up, to the entire world, a story about seeing enslaved children work, I'd be asked to clarify and, if I were lying, be held accountable for perpetuating such harmful stereotypes.
If I went to India and made up, to the entire world, a story about witnessing a gang rape, I'd be asked to clarify and, if I were lying, be held accountable for perpetuating such harmful stereotypes.
But Lochte does precisely that and the media protect him. Why? Because he was benefiting from their smear campaign against Rio and Brazil. This is a lot more inhumane than most of you realise, because Rio is a tourist attraction that needs tourist money to function properly and it has, like Brazil as a whole, always benefited from foreigners with money and skill wanting to live here. Bullshit like that can genuinely have a negative impact on its prosperity and the means available to fix its poverty, crime and infrastructure problems.
This fucker belongs in JAIL.