You know, I thought you were going to connect the dots to acceptable having to do with racism and classism. Given people of color and lower socioeconomic status are disproportionately at risk of dying from covid, acceptable takes on a different quality, does it not? Would covid death rates still be acceptable if middle class white people were dying at the same rates? I wonder.

That brings to mind a different issue, that doesn’t seem connected but really kind of is. The LGBTQ world is rocked right now with controversy over a decision to bar uniformed police from New York City Pride events. Heritage of Pride has barred uniformed NYPD presence because of their ongoing brutality against queer people, disproportionately directed against trans people and people of color.

But to hear people scream about the “unfairness” of it, one is forced to conclude that brutality against the most marginalized is for them acceptable loss.

It’s impossible to imagine that if the NYPD were beating and jailing white queer people in the same proportion, that people would be just shrugging that off.

Sadly, shrugging it off is exactly what the New York Times did yesterday in an official editorial calling HOP’s decision wrong headed.

Acceptable loss.