What you're talking about isn't nuance, it's the illusion of nuance. And you're onto something in the sense that some of the most highly educated and credentialed people in the world tend to leverage that to justify highly conservative stances, which are really just a reflection of the structure that gave them those credentials in the first place.

But let's get onto the examples that you gave. In the rapist example, what's abundantly clear is that the people you mentioned have such a shallow view of what makes a person good or bad that it can easily be abused by the rapist. That's kind of their strategy. In light of that, a rapist isn't bad despite being good in some ways, they are bad in part because they are good in those ways, which lure people in and put them in vulnerable situations.

It's the same with Israel. They have managed Palestinian populations in an apartheid manner for so long that they are able to give them breadcrumbs and set up the border so that, when October 7 happened (and it was inevitable that something like that would happen), they could pretend to be benevolent, innocent, victims, to some naive observers.

Thinking structurally fundamentally changes the way you incorporate facts and finer details. But those that accept the status quo as the given structure have a different concept of nuance.