Mahbod Moghadam, the cofounder of Rap Genius, has resigned after annotating the UCSB shooter’s manifesto with comments like “beautifully written.”
The founders of the website Rap Genius Mahbod Moghadam, Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman pose on April 2, 2012.
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Rap Genius was designed to annotate or interpret lyrics, but has come to be used for all types of documents, including the manifesto written by Elliot Rodger, who killed six people earlier this week.
On Sunday, Rap Genius cofounder Mahbod Moghadam used the service himself to write annotations throughout the UCSB shooter's 141-page manifesto.
Moghadam's comments attempt to understand Rodger's family, home, and addictions, but many of them cross the line by offering praise for the way the manifesto is written and calling Rodger's sister a "hottie" and "smokin hot," which is particularly insensitive given the misogynist motives behind Rodger's killing spree.
The inappropriate comments have since been deleted from Rap Genuis, but first they were captured in screenshots by Gawker.
In this comment, Moghadam writes the Rodger's manifest is "beautifully written."
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Moghadam says he thinks Rodger's sister must be "smokin hot."
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