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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have noticed something kind of odd
I have no idea if it means anything, but maybe some others may have also noticed it.
Has anyone else noticed the resemblance between the Buffalo shooter, Payton Gendron, the Kenosha murderer Kyle Rittenhouse, and that southern California incel Elliot somebody who murdered a bunch of women some years back? All baby-faced, curly-haired, slightly pudgy types. I wonder if there's genetic thing at work here, or if it's just a coincidence.
bucolic_frolic
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I don't like to go the genetics route, but.
You know, modern diet has become calorie laden with protein about 160 years now, so 6-8 generations. Something about concentrating the proteins leading to ... brawn, anger, something not yet understood? Some genetic anger-marker switched on by metals in fried foods, chemical impurities, heavy fat content? Stored fat is potential energy, how and when the body decides to burn it, who knows.
Fetal alcohol syndrome, in mild form? There might be some data on those studies, if they found any overt genetic markers.
They do seem inwardly-focused and sure of themselves. But there are just so many elements to development - nature vs. nurture. Add in a few industrial chemicals and you have quite a matrix of markers.
Hekate
(90,867 posts)Sorry, I just couldnt help myself.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)hurple
(1,306 posts)White, youg adult male gamer look. Too much snacks, gast food and sitting around inside, lethargic; not enough meals and outside exercise.
keep_left
(1,792 posts)...4Chan/8Chan/8kun/whatever the hell they call it now. The Buffalo massacre was literally murder by Pepe meme.
kimbutgar
(21,224 posts)They sit in front of their computers or cell phones and eat junk food and get lumpy. They rarely go out or get Vitamin D and probably dont even know what salads are.
That said why are the parents being let off the hook on this one.
Hes probably a virgin but wont be one for long in jail.
relayerbob
(6,561 posts)Sympthsical
(9,132 posts)Other than being young and white. Rodgers was half-Asian and slender for a start. Rittenhouse doesn't have curly hair.
Other than Rittenhouse and Gendron having baby faces, I don't see resemblances. They all look very different.
Jilly_in_VA
(10,016 posts)He was cleaned up for that. Seems to me that it was a little curly on the ends when he was arrested though.
Sympthsical
(9,132 posts)I watched quite a bit of the Rittenhouse trial. I've seen only a few passing photos of Grendon.
That said. This is kind of a weird OP to begin with. "Is there some kind of white people genetics that predisposes towards violence?"
Might want to say that out loud somewhere that isn't a fairly protected political space and see how that goes.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Is this the latest version of Chinese people all look alike?
Sympthsical
(9,132 posts)This is weird.
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nocoincidences
(2,231 posts)nikolas cruz, parkland fla. shooter
gendron payton, tops shooter
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Theyre both youngish adult white males.
There is no other resemblance.
Sometimes DU is just silly.
nocoincidences
(2,231 posts)at many different syndromes which included dysmorphia. It was decidedly not silly work.
sarisataka
(18,821 posts)That certainly doesn't bring up echoes from the past
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)feminists are ugly and hate men,
Black people cant swim,
Black peoples have small brains,
Jews have hook noses?
Those echos of the past?
sarisataka
(18,821 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Big resemblance.
Sorry, forgot his name.
Jilly_in_VA
(10,016 posts)it was weird that they all kinda looked like they came out of the same cookie cutter, that's all.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)(Myself included - 40 years ago) did not go out on mass killing sprees. In our time we would have been long haired hippies, but that was just the time. I was thin, shy, and not popular, but I never ever thought about taking it out on other people and killing them.