I'd say that the lesson learned needs to be broader than that. Any time Texas, California, Portland etc are mentioned the culture warriors of the left and right come out. The effect is a lot of lost trust for each other in this community when that happens. I do appreciate the people who posted on the other thread saying they were wrong about assuming a homeless person did it, but this won't be the last time culture war issues land discretely on the front page.
Certainly there are some culture warriors, who use these situations only as springboards to their pre-existing and unmovable opinions about those on the Other Side.
But it’s not all culture war. I like to think that in HN it’s all legitimate viewpoints.
And relevant to HN is that, culture wars aside, it involves challenging and interesting problems (homelessness, drugs, petty crime). There are multiple approaches to situations like these and the best solutions could well be a compromise.
I get quite tired of catty replies like this. If you think "your side" doesn't contribute to an ecosystem of cause and effect I don't know what to tell you. If you're so fragile that you need to hear it spelled out, "The right is still on average worse than you but you're still bad" then I also don't know what to tell you. Maybe, just, don't participate in discourse or something. Your opinion isn't needed, wanted, or appreciated.
Being tired of low effort comments and telling you off as a result isn't being fragile. Feeling the need to make a childish, two word mocking comment when your side (which also includes my side) is given the least bit of criticism for participating in a cause and effect cycle is squarely fragile.
