While I generally think Nathan Rabin is brilliant and funny and I'd love to hear him as a guest on the show someday (triviaspotting?), his seemingly "progressive" take on King Kong is... actually pretty regressive. It paints Indigenous people as simple, noble, and fierce, while also strongly suggesting that there's no place for them in "modern" society (see Kong crashing through New York) and they're doomed to die out. It dates clear back to Rousseau's noble savage in "Emile" (1762) and has been a more "liberal" justification for Native American genocide (as opposed to a KKK sort of attitude), but just as damaging; it allows us to shake our heads and say, "isn't it sad that such noble beasts have to die... but that's just the way of the world."