Salman Rushdie
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If you're going to have a serious conversation, then it can't just be me yelling at him, telling him what a bad person he is, which I think.
He's 24.
He wasn't even born when this thing happened.
And he, by his own account, had read nothing I'd written.
And yet he was willing to commit murder.
I mean, that's stupid.
No, I think in some ways it's a very American attack.
He spent four years in a basement playing video games and watching videos.
And it kind of messed with his head.
And also, you know, I mean, he's born and bred in New Jersey.
Slow down.
Well, then, you know, you're ahead of me.
But, you know, we live in an America where people kill each other every five minutes.
Right.
And I think maybe in his New Jersey brain.
Yes.
I think maybe they have.
I mean, I'm too old to know, really, because I don't... Algorithms don't know what to do with me.
Right.
Give them a chance.