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In the [[manosphere]], particularly among pick-up artists, there was generally an attempt to distance themselves from Rodger in response to attempts by feminists and the media to link Rodger to what was then the foremost faction of the manosphere. The consensus among them was that Rodger was a "game denialist", owing to his use of the anti-PUA forum Puahate. They argued that learning PUA and deploying "game" would have helped Rodger get laid, thereby averting the massacre.<ref>https://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/05/24/pickup-artists-argue-that-game-is-the-solution-to-elliot-rodger-style-rampages-heres-why-theyre-wrong/</ref> | In the [[manosphere]], particularly among pick-up artists, there was generally an attempt to distance themselves from Rodger in response to attempts by feminists and the media to link Rodger to what was then the foremost faction of the manosphere. The consensus among them was that Rodger was a "game denialist", owing to his use of the anti-PUA forum Puahate. They argued that learning PUA and deploying "game" would have helped Rodger get laid, thereby averting the massacre.<ref>https://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/05/24/pickup-artists-argue-that-game-is-the-solution-to-elliot-rodger-style-rampages-heres-why-theyre-wrong/</ref> | ||
Several (then nascent) alt-right figures seemingly attempted to distance their 'movement' from the incident by claiming Elliot Rodger's British | Several (then nascent) alt-right figures seemingly attempted to distance their 'movement' from the incident by claiming Elliot Rodger's British father, Peter, was ethnically Jewish.<ref>https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/961419526331076608?lang=en</ref> | ||
There is little evidence for this assertion, and it likely stems from a "Peter Rodger' being listed on a British Jewish film site.<ref>https://ukjewishfilm.org/people/peter-rodger/</ref> | There is little evidence for this assertion, and it likely stems from a "Peter Rodger' being listed on a British Jewish film site.<ref>https://ukjewishfilm.org/people/peter-rodger/</ref> | ||
Peter Rodger's father was the British photojournalist George Rodger (of predominately Scottish descent<ref>https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/iconic-images/george-rodger-1908-1995-iconic-photographer-15402</ref>), who was famous for being the first to photograph the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops in April 1945.<ref>https://ejlw.eu/article/download/36907/34435/46236</ref> | Peter Rodger's father was the British photojournalist George Rodger (of predominately Scottish descent<ref>https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/iconic-images/george-rodger-1908-1995-iconic-photographer-15402</ref>), who was famous for being the first to photograph the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops in April 1945.<ref>https://ejlw.eu/article/download/36907/34435/46236</ref> | ||
Peter Rodger's mother is the American Journalist Lois "Jinx" Rodger (née Witherspoon, an Anglo-Scottish [from the border regions of the former Kind of Strathclyde] surname https://www.houseofnames.com/witherspoon-family-crest). There is no strong evidence Lois | Peter Rodger's mother is the American Journalist Lois "Jinx" Rodger (née Witherspoon, an Anglo-Scottish [from the border regions of the former Kind of Strathclyde] surname https://www.houseofnames.com/witherspoon-family-crest). There is no strong evidence Lois Rodger is of Jewish descent, with all reporting on her invariably describing her as a generic "American".<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/14/opinion/IHT-more-to-the-picture-letters-to-the-editor.html</ref> In 2008 Lois Rodger was interviewed by the Jewish Chronicle, which further did not mention any Jewish ancestry on behalf of her or her (then late) husband George.<ref>https://www.thejc.com/news/news/images-a-war-photographer-could-not-bear-to-look-at-1.6145</ref> | ||
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