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'''Elliot Rodger''' (alias: The Supreme Gentleman), or '''ER''', was a [[love-shy]], [[Asperger's Syndrome|high-functioning autistic]], [[HAPA]] [[standardcel]] of Chinese and British descent, who is most notable for being the perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista massacre. | '''Elliot Rodger''' (alias: The Supreme Gentleman), or '''ER''', was a [[love-shy]], [[Asperger's Syndrome|high-functioning autistic]], [[HAPA]] [[standardcel]] of Chinese and British descent, who is most notable for being the perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista massacre. | ||
In the course of his short life, he claimed to have suffered from a general lack of attention from [[women]] (partially, but not entirely, ascribed to his [[shyness]]), sexual frustration, and [[bully|bullying]] and mistreatment from his peers. Together with what he portrayed as the injustices of society, these circumstances were stated by him to be the primary factors that made him carry out his suicidal rampage attack in the affluent California suburb of Isla Vista, which resulted in his death and the death of six other people (4 men and 2 women), all | In the course of his short life, he claimed to have suffered from a general lack of attention from [[women]] (partially, but not entirely, ascribed to his [[shyness]]), sexual frustration, and [[bully|bullying]] and mistreatment from his peers. Together with what he portrayed as the injustices of society, these circumstances were stated by him to be the primary factors that made him carry out his suicidal rampage attack in the affluent California suburb of Isla Vista, which resulted in his death and the death of six other people (4 men and 2 women), all University of California, Santa Barbara students. | ||
This massacre was preceded by a rampage attack perpetrated by another autistic individual who was also the son of a Hollywood director thirteen years prior in the same area.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Isla_Vista_killings</ref> It is not known if this last massacre inspired Rodger. On the other hand, he was likely inspired by the actions of [[George Sodini]], one of the first self-identified incel rampage killers in the modern age. | This massacre was preceded by a rampage attack perpetrated by another autistic individual who was also the son of a Hollywood director thirteen years prior in the same area.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Isla_Vista_killings</ref> It is not known if this last massacre inspired Rodger. On the other hand, he was likely inspired by the actions of [[George Sodini]], one of the first self-identified incel rampage killers in the modern age. |