I haven’t been called a barbarian in a while

I was fooled, and so were plenty of others at Blabbermouth and Metafilter (yes, that’s my first link posted there – damn I feel stupid!), by this editorial at the Iconoclast that clamied that “while the murder of even a semi-human barbarian like Mr. Abbott is tragic and to be lamented, it would be wrong to ignore Mr. Abbott’s complicity in contributing to the soul-deadening culture of death, ugliness, depravity and inhumanity that spawned his killer. “. It’s a paraody. An insulting, over the top parody. And a lot of us fell for it.