They’re the very vocabulary in which assailants like the Orlando gunman speak, and he chose a place where there’s drinking. That’s crucial context for what happened in Orlando, and Orlando is an understandable prompt for questions about our own degrees of inclusion and fairness and whether we do all that we should to keep L.G.B.T. It was an equally perfect description of what the Orlando gunman couldn’t bear. But this isn’t a moment for identity politics, which could muddle the significance of the carnage. Both took aim at societies that, at their best, integrate and celebrate diverse points of view, diverse systems of belief, diverse ways to love.

Source: New York Times June 12, 2016 19:57 UTC