'Tiger King' Easily Holds Longest Streak as Number One Show on Netflix. Joe Exotic and co. have been the most-watched TV show or movie for 15 straight days

You’re missing the point. Maybe give it a rewatch, it really really should not surprise you. Again, this is about presence or absence of surprise after the fact, not automatic assumption. Think about the hierarchical thinking required to justify doing what he did to those animals. Think about not just THAT he’s a “redneck” (looking to be brief here), think about the degree. Think about the “fuck you, I’m getting mine at all costs, everyone is lesser than me” required to do the amount of damage he did to peoples’ and animals’ lives. This is his SOP. You seem to think it’s a stretch to extend this to race, but really, with the ignorance on display, it would be weirder to find out that that part of his worldview went against the rest. Quacks like a duck.

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