Death-denial conspiracy theories require flexible re-interpretations of victimsâ images
Evidence
Lenny and Veronique Pozner were the parents of Noah Pozner, the youngest child to die in the mass school shooting. Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists insist that Noah never existed and thus never died. Or else they sarcastically insist that he died twice, once at Sandy Hook and again in Peshawar, Pakistan, two years later, where Noahâs photograph was displayed at a memorial for child shooting victims in Pakistan (although he was not represented as a victim of that shooting). â Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 403
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the psychology of grief-denial and how conviction bends evidentiary details; echoes the broader âask questionsâ rhetorical pattern found throughout this book. â connects to: Conspiracy sites weaponize real tragedies as evidence of government murder â Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 192; Posthumous martyr images of ordinary victims can unite a divided public â Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade andâŠ, 215