London Bus Attack Culprits Sentenced To Diversity Lessons

In June we covered the London bus attack of a lesbian couple by a group of unidentified teenagers. From Lesbians Attacked by "British Men,"

A lesbian couple were hospitalised with facial injuries and left covered in blood after being attacked by a group of men after they kissed on a night bus in north London.

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Ms Geymonat said she tried to calm the situation down by making jokes, while Chris pretended to be ill. She then describes how the attack escalated, with the gang of men punching them both in the face until they were covered in blood.

Sentencing has now been completed, with one boy receiving four months in custody for the battery, and the other two given referral orders, meaning they get diversity lessons.

The youth was given an eight-month youth referral order, extended from six due to the homophobic nature of the attack.

In other words, he would have received a more lenient sentence if he'd only had the decency to beat up a straight couple instead. In more primitive societies, punishments for crimes depended on the relative social castes of the victim and perpetrator. The same is true in England and most western countries. Because homosexuals are revered, assaulting them comes with harsher penalties. (Although in this case the penalty is still a wrist slap because the assailants are also of a preferred caste.)

District Judge Nicholas Rimmer said: "You need the close supervision of the youth offending service to think carefully about your behaviour. "This will include diversity sessions which will make you think about hate crime, the protected characteristics and minority groups."

That or he will go on a stabbing rampage at the rehabilitation facility.

The article includes an interview of the two victims.

They look awful. Six months later and they're still angry and emotional about their treatment. The reason for the trauma was the denial of expectations. They thought they were engaged in a lifestyle that would earn them praise and special treatment from society. They did not expect to be roughed up by foreigners on public transport, nor for the culprits to go nearly unpunished. The most telling aspect is the body posture of the two women: each leaned away from the other. One of them states that she is not afraid to be "visibly queer" - while wearing a fearful expression - and that the incident is empowering them to only increase their public displays of affection. Still, I would not be surprised to learn in the future that one or both of the women abandon the LGBT lifestyle altogether. Such pairings are not found in nature and require a society to grant them special considerations. Britain wants to be the most Globohomo self it can be, yet also doesn't want to have to answer the question of whether Islam is right about women. Words are cheap and we are saturated by endless platitudes, but the reality is plainly worn by these two.