This outrage is validated in our halls of power and our media as one of many equal competing perspectives, which means that instead of serving as a shocking revelation of collective cultural inhumanity toward one another, it becomes a debate instead—a *controversial* debate.

So, to repeat: Jordan Neely was a person, a human, and his death was tragic because he had the same measure of humanity as his killer, or you, or me, and observing these facts is one side of a controversy.

Also controversial is any attempt to establish the humanity of anyone who our society has marginalized, which is a word that means “this human’s humanity has been systematically ignored.”

To briefly change the subject somewhat, I’ve been told that I ought to make more of an effort to understand other points of view and perspectives.

That’s interesting, because I am not unhoused or marginalized, so I thought that this is what I was already trying to do.

However, "understanding the perspectives of unhoused or otherwise marginalized people" isn't what is meant.

What’s meant is that I should try to understand the perspectives of others, who refuse to understand any perspectives other than their own.

Sexual abuse is a crime, and it is the habitual practice of the former president, according to none other than him, for which (along with defamation) a civil jury had just found him liable.

And he also tried to murder Congress and overthrow democracy in the United States.

And he is guilty of many other crimes as well, some of which we watched him do and brag about, others of which we must only presume. And he once took out a full page ad in New York newspapers calling for the execution of some Black kids for a crime they didn’t commit, and so on.

When pressed about doing this years later, he pointed out that there is still disagreement on the matter.

So there's another controversy for you: whether those kids, who killed nobody, killed anybody.

Anyway, mere hours after being found liable to the tune of $5 million for defamation and sexual abuse, the former president and lifetime criminal was given a town hall by CNN, and he immediately proceeded to defame the victim of his sexual abuse.

And his crowd of supporters that CNN picked to clap and cheer everything he said clapped and cheered, which only seems possible if they don’t consider E. Jean Carroll to be a person.