"Almost everyone, at one time or another, has been bullied, harassed, put down, hurt or suffered prejudice with no means of striking back. The vigilante gives us a vicarious way of getting justice. Of retaliating. Of getting revenge. The latter are perhaps not politically correct or realistically possible, but in our fantasies and in our fiction, they’re righteous, and satisfying…"
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On the trope of the vigilante in “THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH JOE IDE” in The Rumpus (2017 Mar 15)
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