I have noticed something kind of odd

[Jilly_in_VA]

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]

1. Yeah, you couldn't miss it once presented with the evidence

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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]

2. Inbreeding

Sorry, I just couldn’t help myself.

[Hoyt]

3. All young, white wing incels.

[hurple]

4. Typical

White, youg adult male gamer look. Too much snacks, gast food and sitting around inside, lethargic; not enough meals and outside exercise.

[keep_left]

6. And too much Reddit, DLive,...

...4Chan/8Chan/8kun/whatever the hell they call it now. The Buffalo massacre was literally murder by Pepe meme.

[kimbutgar]

15. Yes I agree

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 don’t even know what salads are.

That said why are the parents being let off the hook on this one.

He’s probably a virgin but won’t be one for long in jail.

[relayerbob]

5. They are incels for a reason

[Sympthsical]

7. They don't look alike

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. Not in the court photos

He was cleaned up for that. Seems to me that it was a little curly on the ends when he was arrested though.

[Sympthsical]

17. Still nah

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]

11. Agree. They don't look alike.

Is this the latest version of “Chinese people all look alike?”

[Sympthsical]

18. I was more wondering if phrenology was making a comeback

This is weird.

[nocoincidences]

9. I see a similarity between these two

nikolas cruz, parkland fla. shooter




gendron payton, tops shooter

[SharonClark]

13. You have got to be kidding!

They’re both youngish adult white males.
There is no other resemblance.

Sometimes DU is just silly.

[nocoincidences]

21. I was part of a diagnostic team for years that looked

at many different syndromes which included dysmorphia. It was decidedly not silly work.

[sarisataka]

12. Identifying potential killers by physical appearance

That certainly doesn't bring up echoes from the past

[SharonClark]

14. Gosh, you mean like

“feminists are ugly and hate men”,
“Black people can’t swim”,
“Black peoples have small brains”,
“Jews have hook noses”?

Those echos of the past?

[sarisataka]

16. *Ding*

[BlackSkimmer]

19. I thought he looked like that school shooter, the one whose parents are in jail too.

Big resemblance.

Sorry, forgot his name.

[Jilly_in_VA]

20. Nah, I just thought

it was weird that they all kinda looked like they came out of the same cookie cutter, that's all.

[madinmaryland]

22. A lot of kids have the long-haired baby faced look and 99.9999% of them

(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.