Well, that is the editorial standard maintained by GMG’s writers so it doesn’t surprise me that the commenters follow. 

Thanks for the recommendation, this looks really interesting.

I really hope there’s an update or a follow up story for this. I’m so curious about what evidence exists. The school’s blatant denials without anything to back it up seem fishy. 

but if you accurately show who he was than you normalize serial killing!1!1111! this movie will literally be responsible for murder. /s

I felt largely the same way when i read it. I appreciated some of the perspective he brought and enjoyed reading about a culture that I’m not even close to but I think your right about waffling to and from an empathetic stance. It felt, to me, like he was trying to get at the tension between venerating self-reliance…

What were your thoughts on the book, if you read it? 

what the fuck is wrong with the midwest 

*this also describes me

They do when they like politician. Intellectual consistency is neoliberal complicity or something equally incoherent. 

“Rodriguez’s roundtable comments were inaccurate, ignorant, anti-black”

This was my favorite part of our interaction (that either got kinja’d or he dismissed my initial reply he didn’t have a good response. i don’t see it on the page but i can still get to it from my history):

I didn’t expect that conversation to go full Karl Marx quite so fast. 

Cool, I hope you’re working on some progressive solutions in the meantime! ‘cause otherwise it just sounds like you’ve found a way to rationalize smug inaction. 

I think that would be a really solid start to a more fair immigration system. 

I wasn’t trying to get you to fall for anything! Is it just the U.S. gov’t that you’d like to see abolished or all gov’ts?

Oh, interesting. Thanks. That is something I hadn’t considered and now that you say that, it makes a lot of sense.

I agree with that wholeheartedly but those imaginary lines now box in governments that offer a varying degree of services.

What does an open border look like to those here in the comments that sincerely think that’s the best way forward?

This would work better if your name was “Bill W.”

Somehow, I feel like this article wouldn’t be so generous if Malek wasn’t in AVClub approved things like Mr. Robot and Bojack.