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I mean it might've been racism if it was because he was white. Maybe it was. We don't know his motive. Doesn't make a ton of difference, trying to stab people to death is bad either way. It's a good thing he got clobbered by the public and put on trial for murder.

What is "blatantly racist", would be racially motivated actions, like, for example, choosing to burn down the house of someone because of their race while shouting "[example racial slur]'s go home", like what the arsonists were doing. You can't really get much more objectively racist than that.

Sometimes when people call something 'racist' it's some woke snowflakey microaggression shit about like cultural appropriation or something. Setting someone's house on fire because of the colour of their skin is not that, it's actually really serious, it's like the least not-racist thing you could possibly describe.

Though much like stabbing someone, it wouldn't really exonerate them much if they set fire to people's houses for no reason instead of a bad reason, they're still setting fire to people's houses.

If the same thing happened to you or anyone you love and care about, and I don't wish that mind you, would you blame yourself or your friends for almost being beheaded or would you blame the person who actually did it?

I would blame the person who actually did it, and not, for example, any random stranger who might share a skin colour or past nationality with the person who actually did it. (Or, indeed, who might share any skin colour or nationality other than my one that I have myself)

I'd probably want to beat him with a stick but fortunately someone already got that handled for us.

There are more than two Things in the world The people setting houses on fire, the entirety of northern Ireland, and the victim of the attack are not the same person, just as the way the attempted murderer, the random immigrants getting their houses set on fire and literally-anyone-in-northern-Ireland-who-isn't-white are not the same person, they aren't the same *thing*, they're actually separate ideas. Six ideas, not two ideas. Moral blame doesn't pass freely between them, you can't get revenge on one person who wears a red hat by beating up a different person with the same middle name if that person with the same middle name is not *actually the same specific individual* with as the othe rone, because crimes are committed by individuals, and not by middle names, not by Traits. You can't get revenge on a Trait.

If one were to locate the house of the actual attempted killer and burn that down, that might be kind of based, though who knows if he actually has a house, and it'd probably see better use being lived in by someone else since he'll be busy serving a life sentence.

It wasn't that long ago that banks and companies would refuse to serve gay people. People are going all the way up to the Supreme Court to enshrine the right not to serve LGBTQ people in their business. Rainbow capitalism showed which companies were safe to do business with and it pressured other companies to do the same.

Likewise, companies did and do try to discrominate against LGBTQ employees. Rainbow capitalism let employees be open about their identities and feel safe. The 50 year old gay man marching with Bank of America may have hidden his sexuality for decades because it wasn't safe to come out at work.

It helped set top down societal values and norms that LGBTQ people are a welcome part of society.

It pressured companies to adopt nondiscrimination policies and DEI policies.

It made companies donate to pride celebrations and LGBTQ causes.

with mixed success, it provided powerful and visible allies for political change, like the Respect for Marriage Act. Businesses pulled out of North Carolina and forced it to go back on a bathroom bill.

The drawdown of rainbow capitalism has real consequences. Pride celebrations losing corporate sponsorships means they are not able to hold those celebrations. DEI programs are being rolled back. Companies are buying less from queer owned businesses. Support for gay marriage is actually decreasing in polls.

Are these all cause and effect? No. Is it sometimes just a lagging indicator? Yeah. Are fair weather allies like big corps really not great? Yeah.

Solidarity is a weird thing… all of a sudden you’re seeing the Pope on your dash and the tea is… piping hot? (To offset the Vatican.va link, here's a tl;dr from The Onion.) ... Look at him go!

(Disagreements with his Holiness aside, it’s great to see a powerful figure power taking the side of the people.) ... EDIT: Wake up babe, a new Inquisition just dropped:

Of course it's so perfect that the AI detection software used to assess lazy Uni students thinks it can't have been written by a human.

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