It's the [black] families they have and the [black] communities they live in and the [black] friends that they have who also suffer ... there's a community net that gets pulled whenever a member has a tragic event --- in that sense the community suffers as a whole - regardless of their underlying diversities --- it's like tugging at a fabric ... the parts that are nearest go the furthest, but the entirety of the fabric reacts - not always in perceptible ways.
I as a relatively wealthy person, for instance, am affected by homelessness because those people are potential teachers to my children, coworkers, mentors, or customers for my business ... their plight is also my own. Their immense suffering inescapably trips the community as a whole.
Also in that way, an assault on judaism is an assault on israel, an assault on hinduism is an assault on india, and so on ... you can't isolate the victim in a systemic narrative - there's an integral effect.
Nothing really groundbreaking other than for the specific insight that the targeted group is impossible to isolate.
Bystanders are integral to conflict.
But the key word there is "indiscriminate", since by definition you can't target criticism properly ever if you're indiscriminate.
the targeted group is impossible to isolate
Not when you're talking about people who self-select by claiming belief in certain ideas. It's not at all like generalizing based upon race.
Generalization based upon the adoption of sets of ideas would seem to be a great deal more logical than generalization based upon race.
[edited to clarify first paragraph]