Evidence of legal weight? No. You’re right.

Just a lot of smoke around experience of religious fundamentalism and that quoted comment of Long’s. Which is why it’s my best guess and opinion.

I do understand the difference.

Still, that opinion is not based on race hysteria, so it troubles me to to no end to hear racism being talked about it absolutes by some and casually dismissed as a factor because of lack of evidence by others. Both will do irreparable harm. We need that nuance of thinking and speaking.

We likely won’t ever get evidence of legal weight because we can’t read another person’s mind to know what was going on in there. His owning it is dependent upon willingness to make atonement and being self aware enough to know his own mind.

That’s clearly a problem because people who are self aware enough to do that are also self aware enough to not commit such a crime in the first place.

So there we are.