Alt-righter 'Seattle4Truth' charged with killing father over conspiracy theories

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MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – Lane Maurice Davis is a well-known and at times popular alt-right social-media figure who uses the nom de plume “Seattle4Truth,” even though in reality he lived in rural Skagit County near the town of Bow, on Samish Island in Puget Sound, about 75 miles distant. His YouTube videos frequently have garnered thousands of views, and he wrote for the popular alt-right site The Ralph Retort. At one time, he was reportedly employed as a researcher for Milo Yiannopoulos.

Earlier this summer, under his own name, the 33-year-old stabbed his 73-year-old father — Charles “Chuck” Davis, a highly regarded civic leader in the Skagit County area and longtime attorney — to death during a heated argument over the younger Davis’ obsessive beliefs in conspiracy theories.

According to witnesses, Davis accused his father of “pedophilia” – based not on anything he had experienced, but on his belief in conspiracy theories that liberals are secretly organizing nefarious pedophilia rings around the globe (and in one case, even on Mars). Earlier this year, one of his “Seattle4Truth” videos described “progressive ideology’s deep ties to pedophilia”.

According to documents filed at Skagit County District Court, the younger Davis picked a fight with his parents on July 14, calling them “leftists” and “pedophiles.” Charles Davis recorded one of the arguments on his cellphone, and it made clear that Lane threatened several times to kill his father.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/23/alt-righter-seattle4truth-charged-killing-father-over-conspiracy-theories

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Yikes!

Not an expert, so asking a question: Does this indicate any sociopathy consistent with right wing tendencies?

[thucythucy]

2. Another instance of right wing projection,

since the most prominent convicted pedophiles of recent years are Dennis Hastert--GOP Speaker of the House and picked by Republicans to be the #3 person in line for the presidency, and numerous Catholic priests, the Catholic Church and its hierarchy being a huge part of the right wing coalition.

It's getting to be a mostly unacknowledged fact: whenever Republicans and right wingers accuse the left of something, you can be certain it's something they're doing themselves.