Yesterday there was supposed to be a huge pride parade in Oslo, Norway.
Every year it starts in the downtown area best known for the large population of Muslim immigrants, Grønland, and if you're at the back of the parade it takes hours and hours and hours just before you even start moving.
There's never any issue, except maybe some sunburn and dehydration.
But this time it was cancelled. Because a guy shot up a street outside a gay bar, wounding 21 people, killing 2.
Still hundreds of people showed up, for a much more somber parade. There where a lot of tears and flowers and solidarity and probably fear.
But on the internet a lot of people where less concerned about solidarity and more concerned about laying the blame on immigrants and refugees and the "woke leftists" who welcome them. Because the guy was born in a country where most people have darker skin and are Muslim.
The fact that he's lived his whole life here? The fact that most of the anti trans, anti pride texts in the media for weeks leading up to the day came from "regular Norwegians", who also filled up the comments everywhere with queer hate? The fact that the parade starts where it starts without issue every year? Irrelevant. Everything is irrelevant when all you want to do is hate. Even how ugly and depraved it is to use one man's hate against one group of people to stoke the hate and fear of another group of people is irrelevant when all you want to do is hate.
Fuck all this hate. Fuck it! Noone deserves to be hated for how they where born. Not where, not with what colour or gender or sexuality or whatever. Only for what you do should you be hated, if what you do hurts others. And even then you should be allowed to change. Or else even more will get hurt.