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It’s a very well written piece, but it just feels too well written, to the point of feeling to precise, too calculated, too... contrived. Aside from the opinions expressed, the ideological concerns, the relevance to the current political landscape - these are all relevant and interesting explorations, but the whole narrative is just too picture perfect and too close to a screenplay. It just feels like good fiction.

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It's propaganda. It's a caricature coming to life. A caricature created by the establishment media.

It's like if foxnews ran a story "What happened to my 13 year old daughter after consuming establishment media or democratic speeches". And then daughter turned out to hit every checklist of a "leftist" fanatic caricature. Or christian publications that would publish "stories" about how hollywood movies or rock 'n roll turned their child gay or in devil worshippers.

A lot of these "stories" involving children are even manufacture ( in order to write an article ) or sought out specifically. Just like the UVA rape story.

It seems like good fiction until it’s your life and then it seems terrible.

I can assure you, as someone who has multiple family members get sucked up into this ideology, this is how it happens.

As someone who also has watched people get sucked into dogma of both sides...yes this is how it happens

but, the story does give a feeling of being too perfect. I doubt they would just make things up, but it feels likely that a lot of liberty was taken with making it all fit really nicely.

Again all that said, the points within it, are true and valid, the story at plot level is very realistic and is happening all the time.

Yea there’s no way to tell, but I got the same feeling. It seems too much like a fiction with a narrative arc, and neat story with a good resolution. Who knows.

It's a sort of standard form for human interest articles. Much like a movie, it might be better if it were were more open-ended or reflected the untidiness of life, but many people want reassurance and a minimum of loose ends. The unusually young subject makes it more of a parenting article than a political study IMHO.

It IS fiction. It contains true events, and way more real than "based on a true story" fiction. But we're reading the story this mother told herself about events that transpired.

The writer needs this to be a story about descent into a seedy underbelly, slowly becoming more and more unreachable by those around him, followed by a come to Jesus moment. Hell, it even has a clean three act structure and villain (a dangerous influence that Mom and Dad don't understand and are powerless to stop).

It can't be a story about an isolated kid that memed too hard and needed to be see with his own eyes how retarded the people in the deep end are IRL.

I had the same feeling :(.

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