I don't know how you got "cut him some slack" from that.

Unless your idea of "cutting slack" is anything less than believing that Cos "acted alone" (so to speak), or acknowledging that these acts of which he is accused are really symptomatic of a culture that was very much at large in the 1960 and 70s.


Again, if that is your idea of "cutting slack," then I guess that's what I did and am doing.

But if you ask me, I would tell you it's being a realist.