Shooting Spree in Isla Vista, California

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I don't think he was. I have a feeling he really was on the spectrum, but you're right that he doesn't represent how aspies think and behave. The damage is done, though. His own parent stated he had aspergers, so it's above the rumor stage.

My prediction is if incidents of diagnosed aspies going on killings sprees continues I don't think it would take the form of a Nazi like mass roundups and extermination. The number of individual hate crimes would go up as is what happened to Muslims and people who vaguely looked like them after 9/11. If they have not done so already databases for people on the spectrum will be set up and people with asperger type traits profiled. The job situation already horrendous will get worse, maybe much worse. As mentioned in the trendy thread I don?t know how it would affect rates of diagnosis. The intensity of the backlash will vary widely by location. We see the wide variation in attitudes towards autism and many other things now. I see no reason for that to change.

With this incident I am hoping the fact that it happened on a holiday weekend might blunt the effect. All in all f**k, f**k f**k

stop justifiying his hate. it's really repugnant and it's a HUGE part of the problem, and you are contributing to that problem. he had no right to hate women because they wouldn't f**k him. he was obviously a thoroughly repugnant person (i am not talking physically, i am speaking of his personality, which comes through in his videos and writings) AND NOT A SINGLE WOMAN ON THIS EARTH OWED HIM SEX. the fact that he couldn't handle that and chose to shoot people because he couldn't handle it is 100% HIS FAULT AND NO ONE ELSE'S.

Guy was racist also
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/05/2 ... _U.twitter

Manifesto below, I no time to read it now or for most of the rest of the day
http://fusion.net/justice/story/elliot- ... rld-713444.

If a guy methodically executing kindergartners didn't change society at all, this DEFINITELY won't. This will have absolutely no effect on our lives in any way.

Hopper, please stop trying to turn this into a feminist issue. Did you read through his manifesto? He was going to kill his brother so that he wouldn't grow up to be more successful than he was.

The dude was certifiably insane.

I do mot make 'leaps', logical or otherwise. Logic is only one tool among many others in my neural network.

If you dislike my posts, simply put them on an ignore list (if this board supports that functionality).

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--- Nathan

I don't expect the number of hate crimes against autistics to go up by much, if at all. I mean, how easy it is it to spot someone on the spectrum in a crowd anyway?

I'm not sure he was insane, though I've yet to read through the manifesto. He seemed pretty in touch with reality. His take on that reality was to the extreme end for most people, but there wasn't really anything he thought that is that unusual. "The woman makes me want to have sex with her. She won't let me have sex with her. Whore" is one of the oldest, widely spread stories there is.

I did read a few excerpts. The bit where women shouldn't be able to choose who they 'mate and breed with', but rather have their choices made by 'rational intelligent men'. Now, in what universe is that sort of thinking not a feminist issue?

If there was ever a feminist issue, it's that someone can come to form the ideas about women that the killer did, and have others encourage him in forming those ideas,and pretty publicly plan to act violently on those ideas such that the cops come by, and still do it. In many other contexts, with a different ideology, the actions the man planned and carried out would be considered terrorism.

For whatever reasons, he understood his hatred and rage through the lens of misogyny. It's how he made sense of it and focused it. That wasn't an accident. Which is why it's a feminist issue.

Lest there be any confusion, I do not think Rodger's case is only a feminist issue. But it is an important aspect.

The notion that taking guns out of the hands of civilians results in neo-Nazi government goons on the streets, whatever else it might be, certainly isn't logical. The second someone commits a mass murder with a firearm, out come the swivel-eyed loons insisting the answer is more guns. The evidence suggests the opposite.



Evidently, and it doesn't do the Aspie community any favours when you join in with the paranoid NRA rants.



It doesn't, but that shouldn't stop me calling people out on BS that harms the community.

Sure...

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All from his "manifesto". This is the writings of a person that's clearly in touch with reality.

I care no more about the NRA than I do about the "Aspie community".

You're rather a dumb bunny who does not investigate those you choose to engage, aren't you?

Nathan Elwin is out for himself; let the rest of the galaxy burn (since it will anyway).

End of Line.

--- Nathan

Welp.

Oh My God!! ! MR20 I just read the excerpt of his rant you posted and he is beyond horrible. I never thought I would say this about anyone but I'm glad he's dead.

They seem like horrific baroque fantasies. I'm not sure such things qualify one as 'insane' - they could be taken from any number of recent horror films whose creators are likely quite sane. Insanity would depend on how much he believed in them and their possibility.

Nor do I see how insanity in any way negates a feminist response to the misogynistic things he said and believed and did, and that many men share his views.

It does because feminists on twitter/tumblr/other sites such as yourself are trying to hijack discussion about a tragedy and turn it into an agenda driven narrative.

The guy had aspergers and probably a bunch of other problems going on. He had warped views about EVERYTHING; Sex, males, females, race, relationships of any kind, and life in general, not just women.