He must be judged by the conditions that made him possible, but not indulged by them.
Additionally, to call Roof uniquely evil, as Ta-Nehisi Coates has also pointed out, is to ignore the history that made him possible.
I didn't want this to be a movie about Donald Trump, but wanted to show the culture that made him possible.
We need to engage in some critical self-reflection to what made him possible, to think back harder and see ourselves in a different way.
I didn't want this to be a movie about Donald Trump, but wanted to show the culture that made him possible, like that clip from a rally of his where he says to the crowd, "This isn't about me.
Maulana Fazlur Rahman was described as the west's worst nightmare for Pakistan when his religious alliance, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, did well enough in October 2002 elections to make him a possible prime ministerial candidate.
I was told to make him as comfortable as possible because he would die in two weeks.
The idea behind counselling was to soothe the patient, to find ways to make him as comfortable as possible".
"My job is not to keep him from scoring points but to make him as inefficient as possible".
"We've tried to make him as comfortable as possible," he said, "and let the wound run its course".
