How do you lie to the police, smear an entire city, exploit decades of racial violence suffered by black Americans … and get away with it?

How do you commit a DUI in Suffolk County, but only get charged with speeding — or not charged at all? Or beat someone’s head in at a bar but walk away with a disorderly conduct slap on the wrist?

Like they say in real estate: Location, location, location. You just have to be at the intersection of “PC Politics” Boulevard and “Social Justice” Lane.

Most Americans gasped aloud when they heard that Fox TV star Jussie Smollett was getting a pass after allegedly faking a #MAGA-hat hate crime, noose and all. After the Cook County DA let him walk, Smollett took the story from despicable to disgusting by declaring himself the victim.

“I have been truthful and consistent on every level since day one,” said the guy who was charged with paying two African guys to pretend to commit a white nationalist hate crime against him.

“We believe he did what he was charged with doing. This was not an exoneration. To say he was exonerated by us or anyone else is not true,” Cook County prosecutor Joe Magats said after the charges were dropped.

Yes, America, it’s O.J. Simpson all over again: Everybody knows he’s guilty, they just wanted him to get away with it.

Most of the analysis has been about Smollett’s wealth and celebrity, but that misses the mark. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday compared Smollett’s sweetheart deal to the college admissions scandal.

“You cannot have, because of a person’s position, one set of rules apply to them and another set of rules apply to everybody else,” Emanuel said.

Uh … really, Rahm? Because you worked for the same Obamas who contacted the Cook County DA asking for “another set of rules” for Smollett. So, there’s that.

Then there’s the entire premise of the progressive left, namely that there should be different rules for different people. Only, it’s not about “wealth and celebrity.” It’s “race and sexuality.”

What — you think the charges were dropped because Jussie’s a rich and famous Fox TV star? OK, what would have happened if the hoax had been perpetrated by Sean Hannity? He’s all those things, too.

But if Hannity got caught falsely claiming two black guys attacked him while shouting “This is Obama Country!,” you think Cook County would be dropping the charges? No, he’d be sitting in a cell right now.

Like I said: “Location.” Smollett, as an openly gay African-American man, has “intersectionality.” It means that, In the world of liberal politics, he’s part of a special victim class that, as Orwell said in “Animal Farm,” is “more equal than others.”

If you need proof, just read the “Rollins memo” in Suffolk County. District Attorney Rachael Rollins literally declares that intersectional criminals — illegal immigrants of color caught breaking the law — will receive special treatment that will be denied to American citizens. A DUI charge for a working-class white guy will be reduced to some lesser misdemeanor for an illegal immigrant, all in the name of social justice.

Under our federal law — not to mention the laws of most civilized nations — immigrants who commit significant crimes while visiting your country are sent home, regardless of their legal status. Visitors have no right to stay, and when they’re rude (not to mention larcenous or violent), the common-sense response is to make them leave.

DA Rollins doesn’t agree. She sees no reason why the shoplifters and drunk drivers of the Dominican Republic shouldn’t be allowed to run over their victims right here in the good ol’ US of A. So she’s announced, publicly and on paper, that she plans to “Smollett” these criminals with special treatment that we mere Americans will not get.

What happened to Jussie Smollett wasn’t “injustice.” It was “social justice.” And if liberals like Liz Warren get their way, you know what Jussie gets next?

A reparations check.

Michael Graham is a regular contributor to the Boston Herald. Follow him @IAmMGraham on Twitter.