THOMAS CROOKS Classmate Accuses "Smug, Arrogant" Shooter of Bullying, Mocking Him
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When you get bullied a lot in order to handle it sometimes you think to yourself that your better then other to help protect yourself from hating yourself which can easily happen when people are saying terrible things about you.
That’s why this cycle of bullying is so bad.
I agree. There has to be a defense mechanism to tolerate it. How could his parents not see that?
It's interesting we never hear about the bullies. We never hear the mass murderer was a bully in school & terrorized his/her classmates. I don't believe bullies ever stop bullying. Also, we never hear from the successful individual-"I owe my success to bullying, making ppl cower & give in to MY threats & beliefs." I have met many adult bullies throughout my life.
I feel like we're not getting the truth about this kid.
Oh really.
You think?
Patsy.
Def not. Never do. ie sirhan sirhan Lee Harvey Oswald. I’m sure countless others.
Crooks was working at the home as a summer jib: he had gained an engineering qualification at community college and had university acceptances both at Penn State and a private university.
Can't it be both? It's totally reasonable that people who are mocked and teased can also take that frustration out on anyone they perceive as weaker or more vulnerable. They are just continuing the cycle and trying to vent their own experience in a way that brings the power back to them. Unhealthy, not helpful, but also not surprising.
They overcompensate by living what they've learned.
Trying to tear they’re power back any way they can 🤮
Not much different from the cycle of abuse. I have 2 cousins who were terrorized and beater by their father, as was their mother, my aunt. One is such a d*ck that it’s almost impossible being around him. The other is as sweet as the day is long. The mean one is the older brother, not sure that matters but 2 boys, abused. One empathetic & nice the other a complete jerk.
Thank you❤
New South Wales, Australia
I think he was disgruntled with the world and maybe his own situation not stimulating enough for him, thought he’d make a name for himself that would be talked about forever in his own eyes he probably regarded himself as a Hero of sorts 😒
Some days I do feel society is more fractured than ever in my lifetime. I've felt a huge shift in many aspects of society, seemingly accelerated by the pandemic. The anger, hate and violence, over even trivial things seems like a new pandemic! Forgiveness, understanding and civility seem like unfathomable concepts. The race to the bottom seems well underway more days than not 😔.
I would actually date it back to the financial crash (2009 was it?). Resources for the masses got smaller, public resources shrunk, the gig economy came, and life got harder for a lot of folk. Brutal even for some. Of course, those at the pointy end of the pyramid managed to do quite,well out of it by asset stripping the rest of us. Covid compounded it, but the big stuff was there earlier.
The concept of “bullying” has crept so far as to be almost totally devoid of meaning now.
@@noyesharrigan6217 Everyone experiences bullying at one point or another in life. It's how we learn to cope with adversity.
This guy was one of the bullies of Thomas Crooks.
I can't ignore Crooks own words when wanting the day off from work.
"I have something important to do."
Important to whom? Just him?
It's an odd phrase to use if no one else around you is placing a specific value on the task at hand.
There is no way I ever could have gotten off work just by saying that. I would always have to “prove” it. Then, my supervisors would judge whether or not they agreed with me.
The other kid claims he was disqualified from the rifle team for bad aim. Yet the school has no record of it. Yet, the shooter was wearing a shirt from a popular gun-tuber. So it does seem like he was a firearm enthusiast. Hard to believe someone like that wouldn't join the rifle team. The bad aim part doesn't make sense either. I feel like we're not being told the whole truth about what happened to him at school.
The school officials may be trying to cover their asses. They're not going to want to admit that they allowed a hellish environment to exist for kids who get bullied, and especially not that Crooks was a victim.
@@FarewellToGods Yes. In fact, he did not miss the target.
Мне жаль парня. Он жертва обстоятельств. Я не оправдываю его поступок. Но знаю точно, если бы кто был рядом и подставил плечо, то этого никогда бы не произошло.
Maybe someone did lend a shoulder and brought him into this. The guy being interviewed just said..his friend group.
My mouth fell open when I watched this. I have an ex b friend who reminds me of Crooks in that he is very smug, arrogant, know it all but also super smart. When I proposed a similar motive to him abt Crooks he said it was “lame.” 😂 my ex doesn’t have guns thankfully but does drive me up the wall w his attitude like these types do. Thank you for posting this Nick. Very helpful. Also the dystopian world we are leaving these kids is terrifying. We’re gonna see more violence imo.
Imagine mobs of adults stealing baskets full of laundry detergent
i wonder what crooks is up to now
His parents raised him.
Interesting too that both parents were mental-health therapists and strong supporters of trump. Not sure if it's true or not, but it has also been reported that his parents were in the top 5 of a list of thousands of trump supporters in that area; the list was generated by the trump campaign. One has to wonder if/how any of that plays into Crooks decision to do what he did.
Weird because I keep seeing his mom was a Democrat and dad was a libertarian. Although that doesn’t actually mean they aren’t Trump supporters considering everything is upside down and inside out these days.
@@SupernovaX72 Couldn't they try to do a better job of making sure his mental health was okay? Politics only exasperate the strange. His parents, who are trained to diagnose mental health issues should have helped him more, imo.
@@SupernovaX72he was a registered Republican.
@@leisastokes5358agreed
Ii just know Blackrock doesn't sound nice 😮😮
Taking the people's money and giving it to the rich!
@@sandy-quimsrus oh just the usual then hey..lols..x
At least this interviewee is Crooks' age. I'm just shocked that the news published an interview from a young teenaged boy that couldn't possibly have gone to school with him. The problem is that there is so much fake data online that there is no way to know what really occurred. It is incompetently vetted reporting or an intentional effort to obscure the truth, just like the security.
Very true.
Crooks appears to be a kid with poor social skills, and he also looks younger than his age. Those are probably the reasons he was disliked. There must kids kids like this in every school around the world tho so I don't see how that makes him a killer? Its might be true that this type individual is a prime type of person to be pushed into a wild reckless act.
A lot of 20 year olds have crap jobs. Most young people start off in crap jobs but look to move up even in a horrible economy
How could he be an engineer at 19? Most kids are 18 at HS graduation. He would need a BS to be an engineer .Also most kids have crummy jobs if they have to work their way through school .
well that's only if he was going after a full engineering ba , he could all so have had a diploma of engineering and that qualification does not take as long as a ba , so yes totally possible
@@Lukejb2ButterworthNick stated he probably felt bad because he had a menial job. Well if did he was delusional. Very few, maybe a few genius 19 year olds have prestigious positions .
The care job was a stop gap surely. Perhaps his parents expected this of him ? “You’re not going to laze about all summer. “Grab some cash for uni ? I’m guessing here of course but if they’re in care game they would’ve been able to open some doors for a summer job , tip for interview if his social q”s were a bit off. Maybe he enjoyed his job ? Little bit power over vulnerable adults .
It sounds like students he associated with at school were those the other students regarded as losers. Such associations could have been a function of trying to survive at school and do not mean that he had friends. I would not be at all surprised if we find out that outside of school he spent all, or nearly all, of his time alone.
Maybe the class mate that’s speaking was one of the shooters bullies? He could be trying to clear himself of any guilt he has about possibly causing the situation?
In most schools there are nerds who get bullied. The nerds often form their own inner group. They get their own back by getting high marks. Most grow out of this when they leave high school. High school is one of those places that can be really tough since that is where adolescence takes place. Once in Collage or University people are freed from that and start to develop and make new friends and start to form the kind of people they will become. People are reading too much into this young man’s high school years. I think this guy just hated politicians. American politics is a clown show.
I grew up in the time, if fat =you were called fatty, glasses=specky, dumb=stupid etc. a bully picks on the weak, the weak picks on the weaker etc everything is BS now
Other classmates said otherwise. Nice, quiet, knew a lot of history.
The girl only went to history class with him, Crooks doesn’t strike me as a guy who was comfortable talking to girls, especially about his personal political views.
The other guy only saw him at school and sometimes during lunch, he didn’t personally know him.
This witness was the only person who actually knew Crooks, interacted with him, they were actual classmates.
I am also a victim of school bullying, I got teased and bullied a lot at school because I had to wear glasses due to being born short-sighted, cross-eyed, and red-green deficient colour-blind, the thing is, every time I reported the bullying and teasing to the teachers and headmaster, I was the one who got in trouble for it not the one responsible for the teasing and bullying, I believe that's why I didn't do very well at school due to having minor depression that was caused by the teasing and bullying, but, did I feel the urge to go out and kill people? no, not once in my life have I ever felt any kind of urge like that.
Point of order Nick. Trump is not anti-immigrant. 4:53 He is anti illegal immigrants.
Agree. But to be fair, it’s seems like Nick is saying this in the voice of TC’s thought process.
@@Njvghvvnn
Yeah,
Pipe Down!
That's what my Dad used to say. lol
@noyesharrigan6217 donald is a pro white european immigrant as he hires lots of white polish elegal immigrants to build his buildings. Not that Im against them. Good gor them.
@@NjvghvvnnDisagree wholeheartedly.
I feel for Thomas, my heart breaks everyoe or most people is hammering on him. Perhaps he was suffering for a long time though his parents are mental counselors where not able to help him. It is sad everything's sad
Он жертва обстоятельств.
Good video, regarding bullying, sadly for some kids weakness is provocative, America promotes the concept of being a winner, where does that leave kids who are introvert, but ironically Crook's actions were an outward expression.
I'd stop talking to this kid. First he barely knew him, he was bullied alot, a quiet loner. Now, he was the bully, arrogant got under his skin? I'm thinking this kid wants his 15 . minutes. Why doesn't the press try to talk to someone who ACTUALLY was involved in Crooks life.... A co worker, employer, actual friends.
Because sometimes they aren't really looking for the truth.
there's another "classmate" that said the opposite - that Crooks was bullied mercilessly. where is the proof of any of what these different people are saying?
snopes did a fact check, the other video was done by kids who were 2 grades ahead and actually did not have a class in common with him. MSNbc was looking for anyone to say they were republicans and were ignoring any interview that didn't fall in line.
Can I get your take on the multiple shooter theory outlined in Peak Properity vid? The audio analysis of the assassination attempt on DJT is very compelling and gaining traction.
Bullies normally are popular and surrounded by the cool people in schools and colleges,he doesn't fit that profile, probably he tried to act as if being an outcast didn't matter to him but was bitter and many things within, and acted as a dick to the people that bullied or he thought would bully him, quite a complex human interaction. Saldy he was also mentally ill and had acces to tools to hurt people 😢, that is what evidence so far suggests. Who knows if they find more info about his personality and we later find out he was just pure evil. As someone who lives un Europe is crazy to see so many mentally ill people with access to guns in USA, heartbreaking for the people affected by it
How did he get in a Blackrock advertisement..What is Blackrock to a Brit please..x
He was one of a group in the background. I think they recruited students for it.
@@eh1702 thankyou..
Blackrock is a big multinational investment firm with powerful clients, located in Pennsylvania.
"it got under my skin" interesting phrase to indicate bullying behavior. I usually used that phase it indicate the problem is on my end. That I am letting things bother me that should not. Think having "thin skin". So maybe Thomas was confident in "cerebral" matters but lacked the social grace to communicate?
It means he was irritating.
I blame the smart phone and social media.
I appreciate your unique insight to the subjects you cover. Thank you Nick!
The guy with long hair they claim was Thomas I don't believe it that is a totally different guy
Apparently, there was a guy twitter of similar appearance who made a video and some post pretending to be Crooks, but he stopped when the FBI told him to knock it off. In the first couple of days his pictures and video were being circulated online. But that picture of Crooks from behind wearing the gun channel t-shirt was taken of him by the Secret Service at the rally site.
Idk I don’t trust this kid he sounds like he’s giving a prepared monologue. I don’t mean that in a conspiracy way either. There is just something off about his vibe and the way he communicates.
You don’t have to be “bullied” to feel marginalized & experience social isolation. ESPECIALLY at that age. ✌🏼
Yes, but it helps.
I disagree.
I think you’re minimizing the impact of high school and adolescence on the adult mind.
It’s where much of our subconscious is based.
High School tends to follow us around.
Just look at how Zuckerberg and Musk wanted to tangle.
Thanks so much for this second analysis of t m c / butler
I think we all have personal responsibility to assimilate and socialise with each other in our surroundings. If you are abrasive which prevents you from having good connections with people YOU are the only one whose going to be able to fix that
Although Crooks wasn’t “bigger” than this guy, Crooks was patronising him.
It’s clear that Crooks was intelligent and more informed on the topic of politics and that’s exactly what got under his skin, Crooks’s self-righteous attitude.
So it’s not that Crooks was “bullying” this much bigger guy, it was his condescending attitude towards him.
Nick, I love your coverage on this. Hope to see more. Crooks seemed above average in IQ. He was on the right track time wise to have an engineering degree by age 22. But how does someone who is a math/science whiz/engineer reconcile being a gun enthusiast whose identity seems heavily intertwined with camo clothes, long hair and hand guns/long guns, marksmanship. I wonder what he valued more: his mind for math & numbers or his pistol & long gun marksmanship? My brother- in-law is a mechanical engineer who hangs out with cops and wins awards for his target competitions at the gun range, esp long guns/distance. But his agency is accomplished. He was in the army, his work as an engineer required security clearances. I’m just rambling here. I keep coming back to identity and contempt where Crooks is concerned. Contempt likely came from being misunderstood, bullied, shunned.
Thank you for covering this topic. I think it is very important for a few reasons, one being that Thomas Crooks does not fit the suit when it comes to a presidential candidate shooter, he has not ever even voted before for President, and two, the interviews of ppl who knew Thomas just aren’t consistent. It is not settling for me at all! I honestly am not buying it.
Thanks for all you do here on this Channel, I have always admired your work.
Look into Maxwell Yearick.
Thanks
It is a possibility the other guy is correct. Maybe he really was a jerk. If we didnt know him, we dont know. Just because someone is a loner doesnt mean they're lonely or want it otherwise. It also doesnt mean they've been bullied, or that being bullied is the reason they're a loner. I prefer to be by myself, for example. I'm not pining away for other people; they stress me out. This one seems to be projecting based on a perosnal experience of being bullied.
I got your book Doubt The Madeline Mccann mystery. Looking forward to reading this.
So now Crooks is the bully? You know what? All this sounds like typical high school drama.
The fact is, this guy IS stupid. Listen to what he says. Look at his expressivity, too.
One thing that is interesting is the allegation that he always ate alone at school.
That’s pretty much a diagnostic, if it’s true.
@@eh1702 That and how he was not allowed to be on the rifle team for "low accuracy." How bad could he really have been when you look at how close he came to killing Trump. Trump only survived because he turned his head to point at some presentation he was going to display.
I believe Thomas C was too confident in himself and was a bully, otherwise one can't explain all his activities those last 3 hours in his life. The loners are not socially isolated, but his interests are different from the people around and he found comfort in his own company. One makes friends with like-minded people . I am also having problems communicating with people that are not on my level. Why should you push yourself into a company of people you dislike. Thomas was not suicidal personality, he just believe he is untouchable.
Great info thanks ❤
Working n nursing home z not DEAD END job. There are many directions your career may go choices"; unless your drug dealer😮😮😮
Thanks.
Yes, we are. It’s a sad world. 💔
The word is entitled.
Another Thomas Crooks in Southport Uk .
Careless, shallow and selfish society. Yes that is where we are headed, unless, imo, parents take their role much more seriously while raising their kids.
They are parents first and foremost. Open up the lines of communication, be more vigilant and involved in their academic and social lives from a very young age.
To wait until something like this happens is too late.
“A tree is straightened while it is still young.” Lamya Elarj
It seems like you’re trying to discredit this witness because of your own bad experiences during your school years?
You’re accusing this witness of being biased when you yourself are being biased?
And you seem to be forgetting a very important fact about this witness, the fact that this witness was an actual classmate as opposed to the other guy who just knew him from school and the girl who was only in his history class.
Humans are getting taller. I knew a kid, 14 years old, 6'4" , 240 lbs., and too small to be on the junior varsity football team. The only boys, whom the female, feminist teachers gave good grades to were the boys who were large enough to be on the football and basketball programs in college; 90% females / 10% males on current college campuses in America.
That has always left me out of it, always destroyed by any female teacher, unanimously. I tried to visit a student law office on a campus, and every male was over 7 feet tall, and I was almost assaulted, just walking down a hallway, where a giant was walking towards me and swerved into my path. He looked at me like, "what COULD you do?"
This barbaric bottleneck effect has gone on in societies before, like Scandinavia, where everyone is now 8 feet tall. We are witnessing the short lines die off, every woman wants a man over 6'2", so there won't even be short women anymore. The prettiest women I see at the store are all over 6'4".
In the meantime, we are going to see short men act out in misery, until there are no more left in society.
Bully's have their people wrapped around their finger. Enabled to capitalize on their strengths to undermine the weakness of others. Front and foremost the 1st to gripe at how hard done by they are, when they are insecure.
Trump is "anti-immigrant?" or anti illegal immigration. There is a huge difference.
@@paulinebuckles2310 Oh dear. Here we go.
@@TCRS Why did you say that? You know it isn't true.
@@TCRS It is a constant refrain from the media. Failure to distinguish between legal immigration, and illegal immigration. Deliberately conflating the two to attack your political opponents. Shady tactic.
Trump appeals to the isolationist belt of America paranoia.
It’s obvious that this person denying the fact this kid was bullied IS the bully IMO
Jim Halpert: Smudge and arrogant
Taormina is a Commune in Sicily.
I don’t think it’s a Spanish or Mexican last name.
Could be both like harris
Occasionally, I observe school-age students who do not feel they are recognized by their peers as superior at some skill or subject. These students are usually very smart, but their self-assessment of superiority is rarely accurate. They often arrogantly argue with their peers for not acknowledging their superiority. When a peer performs better, the arrogant student accuses them of cheating. Their peers get tired of their attitude, and it usually leads to rude comments on both sides. Eventually, the peers try to avoid the student. They are exhausting to be around. The arrogant students do not understand how their behaviors are a problem, and they claim they are bullied. Many adults try to help them, but they feel the adults aren't listening or support their bullies. I can see how these students become more frustrated as they grow up.
In my opinion, crooks was the bully.
Someone who always eats alone at school is not the bully. Bullies always recruit others, a little clique - it is part of why people become bullies, to get allies.
It’s sad today that we don’t think about the future of our kids. Used to be much different. It’s all about productivity and working people to death. No one seems to care anymore. And it’s quite frankly disgusting.
Does anyone know the name of the song Nick uses for his Outro? I am obsessed with it. ps not the one he starts with, the ending one.
@@Psmith-ek5hq It's called Anxiety by NEFFEX
I'm not buying this guys account.
Why do they always show shooter in the wrong location?…. This seems odd that they’re doing this. That location where red dot 🔴 is, is where local law enforcement had counter snipers setup inside building.
I am sick of the bullying excuse. I was bullied and it sucked but it only made me stronger. It developes a thick skin.
This person is too old to have even been a classmate.Illicit actor.bad casting.
Taormina is not Hispanic. This is an Italian name. It's actually a city in Sicily.
@@lmz7720 in the interview he refers to himself as Hispanic. Do you think he's mistaken?
He seems to be mistaken about everything else so who knows.!@@TCRS
@tcrs I missed that and perhaps he is Hispanic on his mom’s side. Or he just doesn’t know, lol.
The guy calling him arrogant threw out a red flag for me-he wasn’t severely bullied?-what does that mean?
All these so called old school mates are after there five minutes of fame so they are making up these ridiculous stories and of course the media are eating it up lol. Garuntee these guys making these claims are totally full of shit.
Love your work but I'm not buying it. The whole thing seems staged to me. I'll chime in on this to support your analysis / investigation, not discredit it as what I'm saying may seem offensive or disrespectful.
Sounds to me like Crooks was still finding his way in life and struggling socially hence the nursing home job . Only speculation here but maybe the job was advice from the parents (counsellors weren't they? ) to build social skills? Additionally, there aren't many entry level jobs for Engineering students as it is a narrow field. Like someone said in the comments below, we've all had crap jobs at a young age. Overall, it seems to me his behaviour was normal for a 20yr old, not a killer with no options left in life.
Basically, I think he was trying to be useful and 'fit in' to society like all young men but had trouble being respected. Remember life is a popularity contest after all. Imagine being competant in Engineering and nobody giving a crap? That surely would have a negative effect on pyschology. Yes, agree on the social death concept, but shooting the potential president?? I don't think so.
Being smart at a young age these days is hard. Particurlaly if you are a "know it all" with glasses, the nerdy look and haven't made it yet. i.e made big money. Personally, I've been called the "know it all" a many times (42 yrs old) and it cuts deep because you're simply doing what you're good at, trying give value to society and often the average person can take it the wrong way. i.e they take offence when you're simply trying to help them. Very frustrating.
We also have to rememeber there's been a technological shift in the last 20 years, with information being available for free almost instantly to the average person with a mobile phone. One can now 'Google it' instead of engaging you, effectively 'cheapening' your brain, which I'll admit can make you feel worthless at times. For example, Imagine calling Macgyver a "know it all" back in the 80's.
Anyway, that's my take on it.
It’s ironic that the young man Mr Thomas Matthew Crooks wanted to take down king trump the king of all bullies,
He apparently had a hit list of other figures, including Biden. So it seems more like he just wanted to take someone out.
@@bluegirllove777 Upholding the law isn't bullying, not for NORMAL PEOPLE.
Rural Pennsylvania is Trump Country through and through. At least 90% of his peers would have been Trump fans.
Such a stupid comment with zero evidence. Then again what do you expect from an Only Fans girl.
He would have settled for taking out Kate Middleton or Fani Willis too.
It always feels like people's attitudes are trending downhill, but don't know if that's an illusion. Sometimes the world gets better in small amounts but degenerates again. But if the net trend was going downhill I'd have expected the planet to have been self-destroyed generations ago. Right now with a lot of role models of decorum in my generation going out of our lives through old age, it feels like there's a general notion that it's cool to be a reckless dickhead.
It’s the classic story of one step forward two steps back.
Most likely one of the people who bullied him and he is now trying to make himself feel better by telling lies about his victim
Yes, the narcissistic smear campaign on their victim
Permit me to clear things up for you: the only "victims" in this story are Corey Comperatore, Donald Trump, David Dutch and James Copenhaver, not this kid and certainly NOT Ree!TardyOswald. He got himself mixed up in something he shouldn't have and paid the ultimate price for it.
I dont think the 20 Yr old is the shooter. The vehicle they took away was not from his home town. His hairs long. They matched dna without him having a previous record.. Why no recent pics of crooks..
The guidance counselor who claimed Crooks was not bullied was not credible, because kids who bully rarely do it with adults present, and the kids rarely report these incidents. Some bullies like an audience of students, but some bullies don't. Plus, some bully in mostly one place, like the school bus, in front of hall lockers in the morning, or the gym locker room or gym class. Of course it can take place in the cafeteria, the halls or anywhere in a school. So, no one student sees all the bullying of a person like Crooks, unless they are following him around everywhere.
Vincent Toarmina tells one good story, about Crooks confronting him on being Hispanic but liking Trump, and then he was specific how Crooks hated Bernie Sanders. However, he says Crooks spoke a lot about politics but he fails to say what was said specifically, especially the most important, what did Crooks say about Trump. He may not remember exactly what was said because like most high school students, he's not that interested in politics and not following everything Trump says closely. Instead, he's just going with a general feeling, something which is probably heavily influenced by his parents.
Even so, don't get me wrong, I think Toarmina said something revealing few other witnesses have hinted at, that Crooks didn't like any political figures, which isn't exactly psychotic, because there are a lot of people who don't like the any of the choices we have as voters. So, it's possible Crooks registered as a Republican just for the guns.
You sound sympathetic for the criminal. Pity. Here i thought you were a rocket scientist. Guess not. I was bullied daily in school, from the first day of kindergarten to my last day of graduation. I was born with a birth defect, very obvious, so i know of what youre speaking. I was forced into being a loner as i was rejected by other kids. Just ignored. Then verbally attacked non stop. I also grew up in a home with my family and my dad was a hunter. Weapons in every corner. Loaded. He sold them and traded them in our living room. I never once contemplated any such retaliation against my attackers. I just went home and cried. So boohoo if he was bullied. WHO WASN'T?
Plenty of people are not bullied at school.
Esssentially you are saying - “since I didn’t become mentally ill, boo-hoo - mental illness doesn’t exist!”
If someone has a developmental delay (he seems to have been immature and may have been on the autistic spectrum) or if they have a predisposition to something like depression, or if they just lack the feeling that there is one single person who is well-disposed towards them - the outcome can be very different.
Objectivity is not sympathy. To analyse something rationally is to set aside personal feelings
@@eh1702I agree either way the Autism Spectrum Disorder. High functioning meaning intelligent but socially awkward.
Maybe crooks was autistic. Intelligent, social difficulties, unable to interact.
@@craign6341 You need to unburden yourself by what has been.
Was he gay? I wonder if he was bullied for sexual orientation?
Yes, I definitely think we are becoming a meaner, more selfish, less caring society from the one I grew up in and I was bullied at a couple of schools I went to even in kinder days. Social death is devastating to live through and I firmly believe Thomas is just the kind of kid who would have died a social death long before his sad, short life ended physically. Schools never own up to the vile bullying that goes on right in front of their eyes and sensitive young people are always a target of bullying in my experience. I've seen it so many times. Unfortunately, I believe the horse has bolted in terms of trying to reign in this abhorrent behaviour which is rife now. You only have to look at RUclips comments, chat rooms and no doubt social media for example after example of this sort of thing. It often seems like the nastier and more cutting your comments are, the more popular and higher up in the pecking order you become. It makes me very sad for the gentle souls out there and who are yet to come. Thanks for your insightful perceptions.
In response to this classmate's opinion of TMC, you can really tell that he took it personally. He's a good looking guy, and probably wasn't used to that type of response or treatment of him. I think it show's another aspect of TMC's personality - and I can picture him acting this way - he was disconnected and socially akward and probably did think of himself that he was more intelligent - it's also a way of not letting others get too close to him. In answer to your final question - YES.
The kid was a narcissistic psychopath, I'm saying that from a clinical perspective, not a name calling perspective.
Lack of ability to interpret social clues (low empathy is connected with inability to connect socially and hence read social cues, leading to not fitting in) ... low or no emotional empathy for others ... slightly higher than normal cognitive function allowing him to believe he was better than or superior to others (grandiosity). Victim world-view, lack of accountability, predisposition to criminal or destructive behavior fueled by his victim fantasy ("they deserve it" is what his narcissism tells him.)
The wound was likely before the age of 9, likely an insidious pattern occurring over time, not necessarily dramatic and acute.
This kid was turned 'evil' long before middle school and high school.
He was once a victim of abuse, as a younger child, the organism responded to the trauma by forming the clinical narcissism, a common self defense mechanism, and he was likely predisposed genetically to a psychopathic/sociopathic flavor.
Do not blame his school friends. By then intervention by anyone other than a really really insightful psychologist was useless.
Narcissism is like concrete that cures, it cannot be un-cured into a peanutbuttery consistency, or a baked cookie that can not be unbaked back into malleable batter.
Do not blame society, do not blame his schoolmates.
What happened to him - the early abuse, and the organism' s adaptive and rigid response to that trauma, happened long before. Rejection by schoolmates and bullying, if IN FACT it happened, and it wasn't just a one way street of smug arrogance from the kid towards others, would be a natural immune system reaction by the normal mostly-healthy social system around him, that is, the group picked up that something was dark in this one, and that darkness was evidenced by the smug superiority and the disconnectedness emanating FROM the kid to the group. The social system therefore was more keeping its distance like one would from a rabid raccoon, as opposed to explicitly 'othering' that rabid raccoon.
It's just more complex than a refrigerator magnet bromide about being kind to others. Yes be kind to other, yes, try to understand that people are not inherently evil, but DO avoid copperheads, rattlesnakes and rabid raccoons in the wild, in your family, and in school.
And for his schoolmates and 'society in general'? THIS IS NOT YOUR FAULT. This process was at work with the cavemen, and in this case the cake was baked LONG before you ever met him.
If there is something to blame here, look towards parenting, well intentioned or otherwise ... and if you want to look for the root of THAT problem, well you have to go back to the original 'missing of the mark' in the Bible, or the dust-in-their-eyes spoken of in early Buddhism.
Interesting. I believe he also thought he was a girl which would not endear him to his male peers.
Thank You, Don Bueller! You nailed it!
That’s great and all but you haven’t assessed him so not sure about this statement.
@@DonBueller exactly my point. So it’s not an objective statement. It’s subjective what you think. And your opinion is very possible but hard to know now.
02:13 Graphic is wrong Crooks was to the right of the center of the roof, approximately 50 feet from where the arrows are pointing. The snipers that this graphic shows as the ones who took him out is inaccurate, their view was obstructed by the trees, the other snipers on the roof of the far right building, with the police car in front of it, are the ones that shot Crooks.
My thoughts, he being an only child was spoiled and use to getting his way. Sure Dad had an influence on him with his guns, to get more of his way... turning him into a punk...like himself!
He wasn't an only child.
He had an older sister that was the favored child leading to possibly more resentment. See Nick’s previous vid where he touches on this.
@@TCRS at 2:25 is this his sister?