MEDIA HOAX OR MEDIA JOKE?

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.

HATE CRIME HOAXES AND JEALOUS GODS

         

 by Andy Nowicki

With the University of Virginia frathouse gang rape story officially unraveling, we see yet another iteration of what has become a new American tradition: the campus hate crime hoax.

Technically, I know that rape is not a "hate crime" (a dubious designation in itself), but this case was already being predictably treated as such by prominent feminists and entrenched academic activists, who generally like to bray about "toxic masculinity" and "rape culture" whenever possible.

As with the Duke lacrosse case several years ago, the pieces were all in place here: the alleged rapists were rich, Southern white frat boys, a group which checks off all boxes in the Cult-Marx manual of easy vilification of the so-called "privileged." In the wake of one girl's lurid and generally incredible (and, as we now are finding, thoroughly non-credible) account of events concerning said incorrigible racist-sexist-homophobic-Southern-preppy-whitebread ritualistic rapists, on a campus moreover condemned in a breathlessly credulous Rolling Stone article as "overwhelmingly blond" (boo! hiss!), a massive reeducation campaign had been readied, the better to indoctrinate anyone with the temerity to hold out against the mandated ruling ideologies, which after all require supine allegiance at the cost of one's livelihood, reputation, and future. Our rulers are jealous gods, indeed.