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| Did he really do it? Did he ever even exist? Can the media ever be trusted? |
by Andy Nowicki
As scribblers scramble to find out the "actual factuals" concerning the hideously horrific act of Chris Harper Mercer, a reclusive, mixed-race "conservative republican" who fetishized the Irish Republican Army, loathed Christianity, adopted a Nazi-sounding username and professed a cryptic adherence to the "left hand path," (i.e. a man whose online persona seems to resist all convenient pigeonholes, yet also to conjure up various "loner-loser-pyscho" archetypes all at once, checking many boxes simultaneously including but not limited to (1) comic book nerd, virgin, and pornography addict, (2) unemployed misfit who lived with his mother, (3) avid gun collector, (4) generally Aspbergers-ish, autistic weirdo)... some, a mere day later, are already adamantly refuting the notion that the massacre at Umpqua College ever even took place.
