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I am your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh.

Hello. And Marsh. Hello and Alice. So you might remember the a few weeks ago the

Sun ran a headline where the headline was Flakenstein and they said

snowflake students are saying that Frankenstein's monster is actually the victim and have sympathy for the

murdering mass murdering creature whatever something along those lines

yeah I do remember that which at the time I tweeted something saying, you know,

astounding ignorance from the sun here because as many people pointed out in response to that

story, yeah the monster is a sympathetic character.

Yeah, yeah, explicitly sold in Frankenstein.

That's the point.

Yeah, that's very much the point of that story

is that the monster is portrayed sympathetically.

So I said, you know, absurd ignorance by the sun.

I've since kind of re-evaluated that and I'm less convinced that it's ignorance from the sun

and more the sun hoping that their readers are ignorant because it's just feeding the sun's current

snowflake narrative. I don't know. I honestly don't know whether whether that

which was a source of ignorance.

But I think this basic reading comprehension is an important thing that seems to be going missing in all of those circles.

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