michael

…hacking and identity theft, despite having done neither of these. I don't mean that he is innocent —Weev is in no way innocent — but that the things he did were neither hacking nor identity theft.

…there is only this in the story of John Rabe: there are no clear bad guys or good guys in humanity. There is just an uncomfortable pause, where you can let history crowd in on you. The best you can do is be quiet in the face of the terrible contradictions, and try to figure out w…

John Rabe was a good German in the bad sense. But he was also possibly the very best German. He remains obscure in the west, where we like our morality more black and white. He is a hero in China, because what else can you call a man who lays his life on the line to protect 200,000 people?