Portrait of a Killer: Elliot Rodger Claimed in Video to Be ‘Supreme Gentleman’

Posted on | May 24, 2014 | 249 Comments

Santa Barbara mass murderer Elliot Rodger.

Background information about the Santa Barbara shooter is beginning to emerge, tending to confirm what I said about Elliot Rodger when his YouTube rant was nearly all we knew about his motives:

This attitude is a typical “Nice Guy” rationalization by which losers project onto others the responsibility for their own failures, so that successful men are scapegoated as “obnoxious brutes” and women who reject the Nice Guy are condemned as “sluts.”
At the root of the “Nice Guy” rationalization is a narcissistic blindness to his own shortcomings and a sense of entitlement to female companionship. He cannot admit (especially to himself) that his own resentments are actually motivated by envy, nor that his rage against women is a type of “sour grapes” rationalization: Frustrated desire expressed as rejection of those who reject him.

Rodger was short, non-athletic and socially awkward, and this kind of “Nice Guy” rationalization is what goes on inside the minds of losers who can neither accept their limitations nor overcome them. The Los Angeles Times has the full transcript of his video rant:

“Hi, Elliot Rodger here. Well, this is my last video. It all has to come to this. Tomorrow is the day of retribution, the day I will have my revenge against humanity, against all of you.
“For the last eight years of my life, since I hit puberty, I’ve been forced to endure an existence of loneliness, rejection and unfulfilled desires, all because girls have never been attracted to me. Girls gave their affection and sex and love to other men, never to me.
“I’m 22 years old and still a virgin, never even kissed a girl. And through college, 2 1/2 years, more than that actually, I’m still a virgin. It has been very torturous.
“College is the time when everyone experiences those things such as sex and fun and pleasure. In those years I’ve had to rot in loneliness, it’s not fair.
“You girls have never been attracted to me. I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted to me but I will punish you all for it. It’s an injustice, a crime because I don’t know what you don’t see in me, I’m the perfect guy and yet you throw yourselves at all these obnoxious men instead of me, the supreme gentleman. I will punish all of you for it. [laughs]
“On the day of retribution, I am going to enter the hottest sorority house at UCSB and I will slaughter every single spoiled, stuck-up, blond slut I see inside there. All those girls I’ve desired so much. They have all rejected me and looked down on me as an inferior man if I ever made a sexual advance toward them, while they throw themselves at these obnoxious brutes.
“I take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you., You will finally see that I am, in truth, the superior one, the true alpha male. [laughs] Yes, after I have annihilated every single girl in the sorority house, I’ll take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see there. All those popular kids who live such lives of hedonistic pleasure while I’ve had to rot in loneliness all these years. They all look down upon me every time I tried to join them, they’ve all treated me like a mouse.
“Well, now I will be a god compared to you, you will all be animals, you are animals and I will slaughter you like animals. I’ll be a god exacting my retribution on all those who deserve it and you do deserve it just for the crime of living a better life than me.
“The popular kids, you never accepted me and now you will all pay for it. Girls, all I ever wanted was to love you, be loved by you. I wanted a girlfriend. I wanted sex, love, affection, adoration.
“You think I’m unworthy of you. That’s a crime I can never get over. If I can’t have you girls, I will destroy you. [laughs] You denied me a happy life and in turn I will deny all of you life, it’s only fair. I hate all of you.
“Humanity is a disgusting, wretched, depraved species. If I had it in my power I would stop at nothing to reduce every single one of you to mountains of skulls and rivers of blood and rightfully so. You deserve to be annihilated and I will give that to you. You never showed me any mercy so I will show you none. [laughs]
“You forced me to suffer all my life, now I will make you all suffer. I waited a long time for this. I’ll give you exactly what you deserve, all of you. All you girls who rejected me, looked down upon me, you know, treated me like scum while you gave yourselves to other men. And all of you men for living a better life than me, all of you sexually active men. I hate you. I hate all of you. I can’t wait to give you exactly what you deserve, annihilation.”

See? Dude had no game, but that can’t be his fault. No, it’s the girls he wanted — the blonde sluts who rejected him — who are to blame.

The Daily Mail has more background on the “gentleman” killer:

He was diagnosed at an earlier age with Asperger’s Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism meaning he had difficulties with social interaction.
Rodger was living with roommates at the Independent Living Institute in Santa Barbara, a facility that offers ‘living skills instruction to help adults with disabilities to live more independently in their communities,’ according to the website. . . .
A good-looking boy, it is impossible to say what caused Rodger’s problem with women, but apart from his parents’ divorce, there are no clues in his background as to the deeply troubled loner he would become.
He was born in August 1991 in Lambeth, South London, the scion of a family steeped in photography and the cinema.
His Malaysian-born mother Li Chin, now 53, and film director father Peter, 49, moved to America’s West Coast when Elliot was five and his younger sister Georgia only a baby. . . .
Speaking from her home in Kent, Elliot’s grandmother, 89, explained that he had suffered mental health issues for some time.
She said: ‘He was a very disturbed boy. He lived in California but of course I’d known him. This is just one of those very tragic things. I don’t want to talk about it any more. This is a rather difficult time.’ . . .
Yesterday, a family friend told The Mail on Sunday that Peter and Li Chin divorced soon after moving to the US and Peter later married Soumaya Akaaboune, a French actress of Moroccan-French descent who appeared in Hollywood blockbuster Green Zone. . . .
[Elliot] recalled in one Facebook posting ‘being the smallest kid in the class’ when he was photographed at Topanga Elementary School near his home, aged seven, in 1998.

Asperger’s Syndrome — thanks to science, we now have a diagnosis, so parents don’t blame themselves for their kid being a total dork. But this is small comfort when the creepy little weirdo kills six people:

A California gunman who went on a rampage near a Santa Barbara university stabbed three people to death at his apartment before shooting to death three more in a terrorizing crime spree through a neighborhood, sheriff’s officials said Saturday.
The three people in the apartment were among the six left dead Friday night during the shootings near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Elliot Rodger, 22, the suspected gunman, apparently killed himself, authorities said. . . .
Earlier Saturday, Alan Shifman — a lawyer who represents Peter Rodger, one of the assistant directors on “The Hunger Games” — issued a statement saying his client believes his son, Elliot Rodger, was the shooter. It was unclear how the son would have obtained a gun. The family is staunchly against guns, he added. . . .
Attorney Shifman said the Rodger family called police several weeks ago after being alarmed by YouTube videos “regarding suicide and the killing of people” that Elliot Rodger had been posting.
Police interviewed Elliot Rodger and found him to be a “perfectly polite, kind and wonderful human,” but noted that he had few friends and no girlfriend, he added.

So the family is “staunchly against guns,” and they called the police because they were worried about their creepy little weirdo son, but the police found the future mass murderer to be “perfectly polite” — the supreme gentleman, you might say.

Because no one can be blamed — not the parents, not the cops, and certainly not the shooter, who was a victim of Asperger’s Syndrome — some people go hunting for political scapegoats and (surprise) find what they’re looking for: Elliot Rodger was a racist because he wrote some stuff on an Internet forum complaining that he saw a black guy with four “hot white girls.” Never mind, of course, that Rodger was himself of mixed ancestry, and also never mind the real object of his murderous rage: “It’s been my life struggle to get a beautiful, white girl.” And, hey, let’s blame the NRA while we’re at it.

Meanwhile, we now have the Mass Murderer’s Manifesto — a 141-page autobiography — because what’s the point of being a mass murderer unless you’ve got a manifesto about how the innocent people you killed really deserved to die because of how unfair your life was?

UPDATE: Just spent about an hour of my life I’ll never get back reading the first 60 pages of the creepy little weirdo’s manifesto. He was very aware — in his conscious, rational mind — of his shortcomings, and understood that his resentments resulted from envy. But this rational awareness did not lead to any kind of effective coping strategy, nor did it quell the intensity of his emotions. He felt horribly humiliated by girls; his sense of being doomed to rejection made him fearful of social interaction with girls. Also, he was unusually obsessed with social status. When his father’s directing career took a downturn, his mother’s child-support was reduced, and she had to move into a less-affluent neighborhood. The boy was so embarrassed by this that he stopped inviting friends to visit. Meanwhile, he disappeared into World of Warcraft — becoming that 21st-century cliché, the videogamer with zero social life.

UPDATE II: From Page 67 of the “Manifesto,” when the creepy little weirdo was 18 and had dropped out of college:

I continued searching for a job, but I still wasn’t able to find one. . . . The problem was that most of the jobs that were available to me at the time were jobs I considered to be beneath me. My mother wanted me to get a simple retail job, and the thought of myself doing that was mortifying. It would be completely against my character. I am an intellectual who is destined for greatness. I would never perform a low-class service job.

Oh, what a Special Snowflake — he was “destined for greatness”!

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249 Responses to “Portrait of a Killer: Elliot Rodger Claimed in Video to Be ‘Supreme Gentleman’”

Mm
May 25th, 2014 @ 3:09 pm

Seriously? No one explained it to me. People don’t come with instruction books. And how do you know that someone didn’t try? It looks like his mom was encouraging him to get at least a modest job. Maybe she encouraged him to date a nice girl who wasn’t a “10.”
Kirby McCain
May 25th, 2014 @ 3:22 pm

If this man had been a muslim extremist posting videos threatening violence would the police been so willing to take a pass?
SavingMila20
May 25th, 2014 @ 3:37 pm

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Kirby McCain
May 25th, 2014 @ 3:45 pm

While the number of people with Aspergers who commit violent crimes is quite low the number of mass murderers who have it is significant. If, as a result of the social awkwardness imposed on him by AD, he became a sociopath is a discussion for someone with a lot more letters behind their name than I.
charles w
May 25th, 2014 @ 3:47 pm

Yes I know. I was in the old Navy. I can’t imagine what its like now.
Kirby McCain
May 25th, 2014 @ 3:49 pm

But it’s so well done…
charles w
May 25th, 2014 @ 3:51 pm

The main point is is become a man. Join the service or find something to do with your life instead of blaming the world for your problems. This kid was probably coddled his entire life and he thought he deserved things handed to him without putting in any work.
Cube
May 25th, 2014 @ 4:15 pm

There’s a very good chance. After all, it’s politically incorrect to notice the muzzie tendency toward violence, at least before it happens.

Speaking of noticing, you appear to be Islamophobic. Report to CAiR at once for re-education. (Do I need the /sarc tag?)
JeffS
May 25th, 2014 @ 4:20 pm

Thank you.
JeffS
May 25th, 2014 @ 4:24 pm

While I agree that muslim extremists are sick bastards, the police would arrest such a person under terrorism laws, not because he’s clearly well short of a six-pack.

Mental health laws are entirely different. Please do not move the goal posts.
JeffS
May 25th, 2014 @ 4:25 pm

And after it happens, as well, Cube.
M. Thompson
May 25th, 2014 @ 4:27 pm

Around here, no.

We’re unrepentant oldthinkers.
JeffS
May 25th, 2014 @ 4:30 pm

Apparently not, huh?
Dianna Deeley
May 25th, 2014 @ 5:05 pm

His parents called the police. He was in therapy. He convinced the police that he was fine, he even charmed them. So, the problem wasn’t people missing warning signs, it is that he was bent on murder.
Dianna Deeley
May 25th, 2014 @ 5:13 pm

The stabbing victims appear to have been his roommates?
Dianna Deeley
May 25th, 2014 @ 5:17 pm

I do not see how that can work, or be anything except a frustrating, deeply sorrowful exercise in futility.
trangbang68
May 25th, 2014 @ 5:19 pm

Gabrielle Giffords’ shooter Jarod Loughner was reported to the police by authorities at Pima College in Tucson but rumor has it his mom , a Pima County employee got the investigation squelched.
Dianna Deeley
May 25th, 2014 @ 5:21 pm

Wait- nine? Where did the other three come from?
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 5:25 pm

It’s like I told Stacy, people are blaming his Aspergers for his social awkwardness. I’m blaming his parents for not beating the shit out him. Everything you need to know about this guy can be and seen and read in the videos and manifesto I posted earlier.

And Stacy nailed it when he said this shit-bomb was obsessed with social status. In one of the videos, he commented about how he couldn’t seem to understand why girls didn’t like him. He owned a $300 pair of sunglasses. He was beautiful.

Also, there was another part in the manifesto where he talks about walking the red carpet (or is the black carpet?) at the Hunger Games Premier. The way he speaks about people is genuinely disturbing. It makes you question what the hell kind of people were raising this kid. Or maybe it answers it.
trangbang68
May 25th, 2014 @ 5:26 pm

Yeah but without benefits
Trigger Warning: Violence, Scapegoating, Misogyny and a Creepy Little Weirdo : The Other McCain
May 25th, 2014 @ 5:45 pm

[…] crimes be generalized so that the murders in Isla Vista are not the sole responsibility of the Creepy Little Weirdo who perpetrated them, but rather are fitted seamlessly into the “War on Women” […]
Guest
May 25th, 2014 @ 5:48 pm

he killed his roommates too
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 5:51 pm

Oh…I think some people missed them. Namely the cops.
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 6:06 pm

Uh…no. I only fuck alph-males. I suspect the rest of the women here are like me. Which is why you probably aren’t getting any and are defending this turd-swank. Since the vast majority of men here are alpha-males, you won’t be getting any sympathy.

And just so you are aware, it isn’t about safety. Alpha-males are just flat-out more attractive. For whatever higher qualities they possess; be it intelligence, strength, stability, nature, whatever. They’re just better than you…and the rest.
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 6:34 pm

Obviously you haven’t read or watched any of the material this sack of shit put out. Because he believed YOU (along with the rest of us) were nothing but sheep. So, I’m gonna give you the benefit of the doubt. That you’re just an uneducated cunt who doesn’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. As opposed to someone who would actually side with a mass murdering psychopath, simply because you hates the wimmens.
Dianna Deeley
May 25th, 2014 @ 7:02 pm

I’d understood that they were already accounted for. They were the first three stabbing victims.

In other words, six victims in total, only two of whom were shot.

Are there three more?
Paul H. Lemmen
May 25th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm

Just a knife and a gun …
Paul H. Lemmen
May 25th, 2014 @ 7:11 pm

Not his parents …
Paul H. Lemmen
May 25th, 2014 @ 7:36 pm

I think your statements above reveal a hell of a lot … about you. I wasn’t a tall handsome kid, I was homely, short, chunky and possessed a superior intellect, in short, a social zero. So what? I had a grounding in a religious belief and I was happy with my lot in life (many years later I would cock that all up but that was in my late 40’s and 50’s). As a young male in my 20’s I enjoyed life, knowing loneliness but also knowing how not to be lonely … by becoming an interesting guy to hang around with. Like Dana, I also married up.
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 7:45 pm

I’d be more interested to know what medications they were on. We have two Aspergers who have committed mass murder, but a shit-load of mass-murderers and run-of-the-mill murderers who were on psychotherapeutic drugs. I think that connection is far more significant.
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 7:59 pm

The guy also stabbed three people in his apartment building. Is this father going to rail against “sharp instrument” industry? He hit a cyclist with his car. Is the father going to condemn the auto makers?

[EDIT] Just noticed someone already commented on this.
Anon Y. Mous
May 25th, 2014 @ 8:01 pm

The reports I’ve seen have him killing his 3 male roommates with a knife, then shooting to death 2 women outside their sorority, and finally shooting a man to death in a deli. There were also another 11 people wounded by gunfire at the 2 shooting scenes,

So, a total of 6 fatalities, although some (idiotic) reports are adding his death to come up with a total of 7.

http://www.keyt.com/news/Rampage-in-college-town-began-with-stabbings/26153616
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 8:15 pm

Fine. But explain to me, by your own Wyatt Earp reckoning, how empathy serves a person like Elliot Rodger. If he can never be fixed (which I whole-heartedly agree with), then what do you believe empathy will achieve?

You’re asking us to empathize with a racist who wanted to put women in concentration camps and use them for “breeding”.

For my part, I know what evil is. And I don’t greet it with empathy.
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 8:47 pm

OMG. Did you read any part of this prick’s manifesto? ANY of it? Have you seen any of his videos?

Women were objects to him. Things. Not human beings. Things. And when he couldn’t obtain them, that’s when he became enraged. Because as Stacy pointed out, he was a materialistic weasel. And sex was something that these “pretty little objects” owed him because he was “marvelous”.

I don’t know if this freak had Aspergers. I suspect he had Psychopath. Mainly because of his narcissism and the horrifying things he wrote of.
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 8:53 pm

You are an idiot. He was not used by women. Nor was he abused by other men. I suggest you actually educate yourself on this situation before you post drivel like this. You are making an utter fool of yourself and you will be ridiculed for it if you continue.
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 9:13 pm

MM is right. We don’t know what was explained to him. Not that it matters. People generally have an internal moral compass. I say generally, because this guy didn’t. He was narcissistic in the extreme and he treated women like they were objects to be purchased with that narcissism. What does that tell you? To me, that’s a sign of psychopathy.

You can’t explain “dating” to someone like that. You can’t explain anything to someone like that. Because like you said…he’ll never be able to inflict enough pain to fill the hole inside him and he needs revenge for being born.
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 9:24 pm

I’ve known some Aspergers as well and none of them displayed the profound narcissism this guy had. I deeply suspect he was given a very different diagnosis and the “Aspie” label was merely a pretense for his psychiatric care. I also suspect that they had him on psychotropics which only enhanced his personality disorder.

IYKWIMAITYD
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 9:27 pm

He’ll now be known as the Supreme Gentleman Killer. Or…the Supreme Asshole.
Dana
May 25th, 2014 @ 9:52 pm

No one to whom he was willing to listen, anyway.
Dana
May 25th, 2014 @ 10:01 pm

Well, while I think I married up, because my wife is an absolutely tremendous woman, I wasn’t exactly the guy who had trouble finding girls, at least not after I got to college. (High school was another matter.) I’m lucky in that regard: I’m taller than average, look more athletic than I really am, and if I’m not Robert Redford, I’m not exactly Marty Feldman, either.

The main thing is confidence, and the willingness to try. If you ask a girl out, there’s a chance that she’ll say no, and that actually does paralyze some guys into inaction. But there’s also the possibility that she’ll say yes, and I was willing to ask.
Dailystormer.com
May 25th, 2014 @ 10:07 pm

This piece of trash was a Jew doing what comes naturally – Killing white people. Sick of it yet white man? Mightisright.net
Dana
May 25th, 2014 @ 10:08 pm

Actually, I’ve been asked out, a few times, although once was by a girl named Dana, and I’m not certain that she didn’t ask me just because of my name. 🙂

Men just don’t expect to get asked out by women, and it’s a huge rush when it happens, an on-top-of-the-world feeling.

Yes, some men like the thrill of the hunt, but Mr Rodger and a lot of other guys aren’t those men. For them, the hunt is absolute agony, something they’d much rather skip, because they don’t have any confidence that they’ll know what to do. I’ve known a few guys like that, and my best friend ever was like that. I tried to help, but there’s only so much that someone else can do.
Dana
May 25th, 2014 @ 10:11 pm

My mistake: I added the three in his apartment to the six reported, without realizing that they had already been included.
Dana
May 25th, 2014 @ 10:18 pm

I heard somewhere (CNN?) this morning that if the police had just gone into his room, they’d have found the material which was so damning, but they never went into his room. Perhaps they would have needed a warrant for that.
bet0001970
May 25th, 2014 @ 10:20 pm

Stay classy, jackass.
bridget
May 25th, 2014 @ 10:27 pm

Ah, but you found a nerdy girl and you think she’s pretty awesome. This freak projects the idea that women are objects – as in, prizes, non-humans, animals who should be doing his bidding.

Women will wait until marriage, wait until the sixth month and he’s met her parents, screw every alpha male (by her definition of alpha, which could be “super nerdy”) around, screw alpha males and beta males, but we do NOT get near men who take that “women are arm candy and I’m entitled to a hot one” attitude.
Nan
May 25th, 2014 @ 10:46 pm

The mom must be awful; she suggested the horrific idea that when he dropped out of college at 18 HE GET A JOB! IN RETAIL!
Nan
May 25th, 2014 @ 10:49 pm

First he was looking at women like they were pieces of meat; then he thought he was entitled to date out of his league.
Nan
May 25th, 2014 @ 10:50 pm

How could they get laid? They were too busy building the internet.
Nan
May 25th, 2014 @ 10:51 pm

Yeah. I met guys in college who thought that just because they asked, girls should date them. Um. No.