Male rage on the debate team

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Cleverly written (so much that I think the author knows it), The Topeka School [2019] explores themes including toxic masculinity and male rage, white boy rap, and white vs. blue collar tensions. Jumping back and forth in timeline, the story follows a white collar family - a son, who is a sharp high school debate champion who is consumed by rhetoric, his mother, a famous feminist author who constantly receives death threats, and her father, a psychologist at a Foundation that seems questionable - and then a blue collar kid who runs into trouble. To be honest, this one went over my head but Obama recommended it. Please read it and then explain it to me.