good summary of why the rodger memoir is compelling and meaningful…[/quote]
I agree with that summary. The boy had a terrible upbringing.[/quote]
That seems like a non sequitur. That summary didn’t say he had a terrible upbringing.
You seem fixated on his upbringing. Yes, his upbringing was far from perfect. But I’d say it was far from “terrible” also. I don’t think his upbringing was that much different from millions of other Americans. Which is to say not good, but not terrible, and maybe not as protected from all the “poison pill[s] our culture could throw at him” as it could and should have been.
His problems were a combination of his inborn mental issues, his upbringing, and our culture. To blame it all or even mostly on his upbringing seems, to me, to ignore the evidence and show a preexisting bias toward blaming it on his upbringing.
I think the clearest evidence of your bias is that you could read that article and somehow infer that it said he had a terrible upbringing. The article says almost nothing at all about his upbringing.
