Here's the thing: it's fiction, and short of Ayn Rand's speechifying characters, fictional characters aren't necessarily mouthpieces for the author, let alone r

Here's the thing: it's fiction, and short of Ayn Rand's speechifying characters, fictional characters aren't necessarily mouthpieces for the author, let alone reliable narrators. Are you irked by the fictional father's mis-read of history, or by the fictional lawyers who distorted the truth to put together a micro-lawsuit for reparations? Or is your assumption that Paul Ford doesn't know what he's talking about? (FWIW, I'm inclined to believe that the Congo reference is an unintentional sleight and a throw-away example used to make a few points about the reach of these micro-lawsuits rather than a troll, but I don't find that it detracts from the illusion because it sounds pretty representative of the understanding of the issue some upper middle class dad might actually have.)