Misogyny played a huge role in the Isla Vista shootings this past Friday night but so did race, say sociologists Michael Kimmel and Cliff Leek. Citing 22-year-old Elliot Rodger’s 140-page manifesto (not linking), Kimmel and Leek flag Rodger’s feelings towards men of color calling his, "a voice of white male aggrieved entitlement."

And then this black boy named Chance said that he lost his virginity when he was only thirteen! In addition, he said that the girl he lost his virginity to was a blonde white girl! I was so enraged that I almost splashed him with my orange juice. I indignantly told him that I did not believe him, and then I went to my room to cry…. How could an inferior, ugly black boy be able to get a white girl and not me? I am beautiful, and I am half white myself. I am descended from British aristocracy. He is descended from slaves. I deserve it more. … If this is actually true, if this ugly black filth was able to have sex with a blonde white girl at the age of thirteen while I’ve had to suffer virginity all my life, then this just proves how ridiculous the female gender is. They would give themselves to this filthy scum, but they reject ME? The injustice!

Rodger’s 20-year-old roommates Chen Yuan Hong and Weihan "David" Wang, and their friend, George Chen, 19, whom he stabbed to death, are of Asian descent. Kimmel and Leek also question whether police who’d visited Rodger’s at a family member’s request would have determined he posed no threat had he been black and expressing a similar rage found in his YouTube videos. (The AP reports that deputies had not seen Rodger’s videos when they called on him last month).

(h/t NY Daily News)