“...Aggrieved White Male Entitlement Syndrome...”
Oh lookie! They invented ANOTHER term!
How cute!
Eliot Rodger was obsessed with the same imagined White Privilege that the Kos types are pushing. His “retribution” was motivated by his feelings that he wasn’t benefiting from privilege enough. He seemed to hate himself for not being “white” and in his youth dyed his hair blonde (a la Mariah Carey, but without the cute results). “White privilege” envy, used as an explanation for his real problems, was the reason for the slayings.
So Kos wants to promote this fantasy, because...?
“How could an inferior, ugly black boy be able to get a white girl and not me? I am beautiful, and I am half white myself. I am descended from British aristocracy. He is descended from slaves. I deserve it more.”
Very interesting.
The killer wasn’t a student at UC Santa Barbara. He went to nearby city college. It’s like saying someone at Bunker Hill Community College is a student at Harvard.
If the author can’t read into this story enough to get even that fact correct, everything else he says about it is suspect. The fact that there’s no way this continuation high school grad could qualify for admission to the UC or the Cal State system with his academic record informs everything else about him. To wit: He wasn’t very bright. And extremely lazy.
And if you read his pathetic manifesto, it’s clear that he also wasn’t “rich.” His youth was a long grapple with the shame of parental poverty. His father was wiped out financially by a movie investment. His single mom to struggled to maintain a roof over their head, so he spent his teen years in a rental in hardscrabble Canoga Park, the cars-in-the-front-yard, illegal alien magnet of the Valley. (He ended up with a beemer because Daddy got a decent-paying job — after the kid was grown.)
Oh, and “liberal?” Please show any evidence from his manifesto or videos that this little self-involved moron had the barest glimmer of a political or social philosophical thought in his head.
I think the author, like the MSM, is getting caught up in the story he WANTS to be true - UC Santa Barbara! - rich! - liberal! etc.
The story is about none of those things.