I’m gonna go ahead and say I’m okay with that. I’m even okay with him characterizing them as good people. I’m tired of this idea that there are good people and bad people.
Good people do horrible things. Thomas Jefferson is my favorite example of a “good person” who engaged in chattel slavery. Or take the flip side: Any number of criminals who are unarmed but killed by police. Are they good people? The more I consider this dynamic, the less I understand it as a coherent concept. I’m not saying that I want to buy these guys drinks and play video games with them, but I’m also not going to pretend that they are cartoon monsters.
