"School releases YouTube post from Loughner".

[ladypolitik]

Jared Lee Loughner, now accused in the shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, walked through campus last fall rambling about his 'genocide school.' The video led Pima Community College to suspend him.
Los Angeles Times | January 15, 2011

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[dearmisterecho]

Initially, "Dare" was welcomed by his teammates, but they eventually began to ridicule his rambling posts. On April 24, "Dare" wrote that 50 out of 100 female college rape victims enjoyed "beating and sex," adding, "The loneliness will bring you to depression. Being alone for a very long time will inevitably lead you to rape."

[koalafrog]

What's sad is how many people actually prescribe to that theory about rape.

[ladypolitik]

Yes, actually -- to the point of there being so many creepy/frightening variations of the theory (from "she asked for it" to "she's not gay, she just needs a good dicking").

[highflyer8]

And his grammar is terrible in the video too.

[apocalypsos]

Nope, can't watch the video, too creeped out. And that's coming from someone who watched every single second of 127 Hours the other day.

[mollywobbles867]

That's such a good movie.

Yeah, I can't watch this either.

[apocalypsos]

I'm rooting for him for Best Actor at the Oscars this year. Partly for the performance, and partly because the acceptance speech will be EPIC.

(James Franco, that is. Not this d-bag.)

[mollywobbles867]

lol I figured.

[koalafrog]

I haven't forgot the teacher that gave me the B for freedom of speech.

Can I just say that I've had students who made me feel a little frightened to give them the grade they earned. They're more entitled attitudes than... on the level of Loughner, but jeez you never know, man.

[entropius]

Arizona was thinking about passing a law allowing students to carry weapons on campus. The following conversation ensued:

Dr. A, the professor I TA'd for at the time: "Yeah, it's kind of silly."
Dr. B, a colleague of Dr. A's from out of state: "I think it's just a way to encourage attrition among the senior faculty to save money..."
Me: "Damn, Dr. A, we'd better make our [computational physics] course a little easier, then, or we're in danger!"
Dr. A: "I'm not worried. Not unless the students can shoot better than they can code."

[koalafrog]

Yikes but lol @ Dr. A's optimism!

[entropius]

Dr. A is occasionally hilarious. He's the terror of the undergraduate population... but he's recently gotten two cats, and seeing him slip food to them when his wife's not looking when they crawl onto his lap during dinner is hilarious.

Another great quote of his (in 2007): "The Arizona budget crisis? It's like one of those Wile E. Coyote cartoons where he runs off a cliff and keeps going for another 15 meters or so before he realizes that gravity ought to be doing something."

and

"Of course Phoenix doesn't support education. It's full of old retiree snowbirds who just want to die with as low of taxes as possible, and don't care about the future because they don't have one!"

(He's in his late 50's and is a cancer survivor, so he's not being cavalierly insulting to old folks)

[___closetome]

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/01/09/who-is-jared-lee-loughner/

Some more interesting information about possible influences, specifically a man named David Wynn Miller. I don't know if anyone's brought his name up here yet.
The rape stuff makes me think either he already did it or that if he didn't commit these murders he would have eventually raped a woman.

[thingofshadows]

mte. it's funny how he's mourning his own loneliness and depression but doesn't even acknowledge (or seem to care about) the negative impact that rape would have on a victim :/

[ladypolitik]

The rape stuff makes me think either he already did it or that if he didn't commit these murders he would have eventually raped a woman.

Same, tbh.

[jiaren_shadow]

Can we not with the ableism?

[schonste]

If a dude is crazy we're going to call him crazy I thiiink you're going to have to...accept that

[angry_chick]

While I'm usually absolutely on board against ableism, I'm afraid that he has to be called out for what he is. He's absolutely batshit.