BOSTON—A man was left bleeding on a subway platform Tuesday evening after a mob of 10 unruly teenagers kicked him into a moving train — and the response from Boston progressives might be even more shocking than the attack itself.

The victim, who was targeted during a dispute over a fare card at Back Bay Station, suffered a severe head laceration after being shoved into the train as it pulled into the station.

A nurse who happened to witness the horrific scene rushed to help, keeping the bloodied man conscious while a transit police officer applied pressure to his wound. Emergency medical technicians didn't arrive for another 10 agonizing minutes.

But when the nurse — who may have saved the man's life — took to Reddit's r/boston forum to warn other commuters, she found herself under attack from an unlikely source: fellow Bostonians.

Rather than expressing outrage at the brutal assault, commenters quickly pivoted to a bizarre debate about... urban planning.

"It's because we don't have enough third spaces to build community anymore," one user earnestly explained. "Not making excuses or in any way giving grace to violent kids, but bored, energetic, maybe poor (?), maybe disadvantaged (?) kids need productive, healthy spaces to be in!!!"

Third spaces. A man nearly died, and the solution is more coffee shops.

But it got worse.

The nurse found herself scolded — not for anything she did wrong, but for including a physical description of the attackers in her firsthand account.

"Why did you feel the need to mention that the teens were Black?" demanded user u/Puzzleheaded_Okra_21. "They could have been of any other race. Please - the Black community in Boston already suffers enough because of racist stereotypes, and stories like this become free ammunition for bigots and racists."

The comment was downvoted more than 540 times — but not before the nurse felt compelled to apologize for simply relaying what police and the victim had told her.

Other commenters insisted that increasing police presence would be pointless.

"No we don't need to increase the police budget thanks," one wrote. "Increased police presence is security theater and does nothing to actually address the root cause of the problem."

The "root cause," apparently, being a lack of youth centers — not the mob of teenagers who kicked a stranger into a moving train.

The discourse quickly caught the attention of rDrama, a forum dedicated to cataloguing online absurdity, where users compiled the responses under a mocking headline.

Users gleefully pointed out the now-familiar pattern: violent crime occurs, witness provides description, and progressives immediately pivot to sociological explanations while attacking anyone who mentioned identifying details about the suspects.

Not everyone on the thread lost the plot.

One witness, u/kenack, described pushing the victim's wallet toward him with their shoe "so it wouldn't get stolen" while the nurse worked to keep him conscious. Another commenter reported seeing groups of teenagers "no older than 14 on expensive looking motorized bikes screaming and being reckless and taunting cops" near the station earlier that evening.

Boston police say they are investigating. No arrests have been announced.

The victim's condition has not been disclosed.