You bet.
How about seven of them?
Nope, especially not a random selection of pledges.
Could you find sever psychopaths in a frat, or in all the frats together? Perhaps. But five random freshmen is a bridge too far.
The issue here is that those who wrote and edited the article and fell for it with such enthusiasm did so because it vividly expressed their true thoughts about white men.
We're all brutal raping animals only lightly restrained by the power of the law.
I can’t think of a more vile and vicious smear than to accuse a currently despised scapegoat minority (a fraternity of preppy “white-privileged” males on campus) of not only brutally raping “Jackie,” but worse, of using brutal gang rapes as a traditional fraternity initiation ritual, worthy of cheering alumni bystanders.
This is Himmler-Goebbels stuff. Jews poisoning the water supply. This is evil.
This fable from RS fits that particular bit of bigotry quite smoothly.