Tinsley states the obvious defends himself here:

“The point my cartoon made was that the animus behind a crime matters far less (or sometimes, not at all) than does the real violence done to a real person or people, and that a ‘hate-crime’ mindset often trivializes that very violence by subordinating it to a political agenda.

This all reminds me of the line of dialogue I wanted to add to The Lion King. After Mufasa explains the circle of life Simba should have asked, “So… they don’t mind that we eat them, then?”