So now this is happening. . .

“I wish someone would see through it when I tell people I’m fine-” Well, but have YOU considered not lying when people ask you how you’re doing?

“I am so resentful of my friend because they keep doing this thing that really bothers me-” Well, but have YOU directly communicated that the thing is bothering you?

“I am burning out because my friend keeps expecting me to help them with serious struggles-” Well, but have YOU tried to establish the boundaries you need to feel okay?

“No one ever asks me about this thing I really care about-” Well, but have YOU brought it up yourself?

“I miss my friend but they haven’t texted me-” Well, but have YOU been reaching out to them?

Being cared for is not a fantasy. But you have to let people know you need it. And you have to understand that sometimes they will let you down. Just like you totally could live in a cute farm, but you still have to shovel shit, and the crops sometimes die anyway. Or maybe you win the lottery, but you still have to manage your money and learn real estate law.

"The problem is that there’s no way to reliably verify someone’s age without verifying who they are. A platform cannot magically discern that a user is 16 without collecting identifying information, whether through government documents such as a passport, payment information like a credit card, or other identity-disclosing data. Whether that data is stored by the platform itself or outsourced to a vendor, the result is always the same: A user’s offline identity is forever linked with their online behavior.

Great, powerful empires colonising other countries and cultures have been a feature throughout human history, all across the globe and cultures.

Christianity and Islam are just a tiny part of the picture.

Making fun of a group of people that are privileged over you is one thing, but wishing non-cartoonish violence and death on them ("they should fall off a cliff" vs. "they should be wiped out"), wishing sexual violence on them, dehumanising them, claiming that they're less capable of creating art or living meaningful lives, saying that their relationships are inherently shallow and fake - these things are fucked up. I understand venting and saying extreme things when in pain, but when you find yourself regularly posting about wanting certain people tortured and killed, you need to examine that.

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.

Of course these attacks are terrible. Of course they are racist. Racial tensions themselves are always racist, and acts taken due to inflamed racial tensions are racist. Race riots are racist by definition, and these are race riots.

But tut-tutting them for being racist or scorning Britain for how evil and racist it is, empirically, doesn't do shit. Part of what has driven these race riots is a cultural framework that says "a riot is the language of the unheard" and "mostly peaceful protests" when there are race riots by any other race. The two-tier system of interpretation is what gives credibility to the claims of a two-tier system of justice.