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Luigi Mangione is whoever you need him to be
- The internet assumed it already knew everything about Thompson's killer before a killer had even been identified, let alone arrested.
- Within hours of the shooting, social media was churning out a mythologized version of the masked man.
- On X, he followed liberal columnist Ezra Klein and conservative podcaster Joe Rogan. He respected Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and retweeted a video of Peter Thiel maligning wokeism.
- The rush to romanticize killers is nothing new.
- But social media has sped up the assumption cycle to the point where we put the killer into a category before police have found the killer.
- Myth-making is easier, of course, when it's unencumbered by reality.
- From what we have learned so far, Mangione is a troubled Gen Zer who won the privilege lottery at birth and ascribed to a mishmash of interests and beliefs.
- But now that we know who he is, it will be hard, if not impossible, to let go of our initial assumptions.
- Instead, we'll selectively focus on the details that fit tidily into the myths we've already created.
- In the digital-age version of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," the legend was already printed by the time the facts came along.
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