[CopperTop]

"..The guy’s just a fairly harmless moron.."

We have, in recent history, had a lot of "social unrest" over supposed white-on-black inter-racial incidents. His intent was not harmless. There's not a lotta difference in a harmless or harmful moron when they're on a stage this big. He's playing with big matches inna dry forest.
I'll reserve my opinion, but be damned if I'll minimize what he did. Either way, I ain't holdin my breath for a fool thing to happen to this guy.

[Zhang Fei]

[We have, in recent history, had a lot of “social unrest” over supposed white-on-black inter-racial incidents. His intent was not harmless. There’s not a lotta difference in a harmless or harmful moron when they’re on a stage this big. He’s playing with big matches inna dry forest.]

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If riots involving dead people had ensued, I expect he would be facing decades in prison. But we generally look at actual harm rather than mere intent. In a country with really draconian laws, like Singapore, the mere discharge of a firearm in the commission of a robbery can be grounds for seeking the death penalty. I don’t think we’re at the point where intent alone is sufficient to throw the book at someone, where that intent seems to revolve around self-promotion. He saw what happened to Kavanaugh’s and Clarence Thomas’s accusers - fame, adulation and lucrative speaking engagements, and thought he could do the same.