Andrew Schulz

And it's just a flattened version.

It's like there's really no humanity in it.

It's just these are the things that people are saying that I'm saying with no context, and then you just create an archetype.

I think in a lot of ways that's the Charlie thing to the furthest extreme.

It's just like if you're on the right, there's one version of Charlie.

If you're on the left, there's another version of Charlie.

And when he died, this person that you saw is like a good, God-fearing man,

You're like heartbroken by it.

And then on the left, this person you saw that was like bigoted or hateful, you're like, okay, I'm not really heartbroken by it.

Some people are even crazy enough to be like he deserved it or this is what you get, right?

But they can only have that feeling if he's completely dehumanized, the version of him that they see all the time.

That happens to you.

It happens to me.

It happens to like anybody who's on the internet talking for a few hours a week.

And when I saw that shit, and especially I saw this visceral reaction to Charlie, that's what sows the insanity in the country because the people on the left are seeing the people on the right be heartbroken, but they're like, why are you heartbroken over this guy who's a bigot?

And the people on the right are seeing the people on the left celebrating.

They're like, why are you celebrating the death of this God-fearing family man?

And both sides just think each other is absolutely insane.

Yeah.

When in reality, he's neither of those cartoons.