Juan, Derek’s friend from the previous year, sent an email inviting Derek to his dorm for a beer. Juan had read through some of Derek’s Stormfront posts over the summer—“all this bizarre and horrifying stuff about brown people,” he remembered—but ultimately Juan trusted his own instincts more than what he read on the internet. If Derek truly despised brown people, why had he spent dozens of hours cultivating a friendship with a Peruvian immigrant? Juan decided to believe that Derek was already in the inevitable process of changing his views. “Glad you are indeed coming back,” Juan wrote to
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