I’m sure people will soon start with the “lone wolf” and “mentally unstable” excuses, all of which leads up to “it was a terrible thing, but what do you want us to do about it?”
Here’s what I want to be done about it.
I want a government whose leaders don’t retweet white supremacists.
I want a government and a news media that doesn’t provide a megaphone to racist and anti-semitic conspiracy theorists.
I want a government whose “Religious Freedom Council” spends more time making sure synagogues, mosques, and black churches don’t get shot up or burned down than they do making sure gay people can be refused service.
I want a government that treats sites that recruit for Neo-Nazis and the Klan like they would treat sites that recruit for ISIS or Al Qaeda.
I want social media empires that don’t give a megaphone to violent hate groups.
I want the media personalities who clutch their pearls and swoon when a Nazi gets punched to not blithely accept that there are Nazis walking around in the first place.
I want the government, the news media, and social media, to stop acting as if my right to exist were merely a matter of political opinion.
