Reason Mag’s David Weigel has a post called Who’s the Korean Tipper Gore? criticizing Steve Sailer for his shot-in-the-dark guess about a connection between the (Korean) killer and the (Korean) incredibly violent movie “Oldboy.”

Weigel [send him mail] said

Since no one can blame filthy Hollywood movies for the massacre, Steve Sailer picks up the baton and bashes Korean movies.

But Sailer may have been right. See the NY Times Blog by Mike Nizza: An Image’s Ties to a Dark Movie

The inspiration for perhaps the most inexplicable image in the set that Cho Seung-Hui mailed to NBC news on Monday may be a movie from South Korea that won the Gran Prix prize at Cannes Film Festival in 2004.

The poses in the two images are similar, and the plot of the movie, “Oldboy,” seems dark enough to merit at least some further study.

Ann Althouse writes that the Korean student who committed the murders is not setting off a wave of anti-Korean bigotry, and is not even being seen as Korean. (I assume that someone got the Asian American Journalists’s Association memo, and is actually taking it seriously.) But this is going too far:

Meanwhile, I’m not seeing a lot of attention paid to the murderer’s Koreanness. On NPR this morning, they called him “the English student”! Get it? He was an English major, and attention is being paid to his writings — which you can see here. Should we worry about bigotry and retaliation aimed at fiction writers who go in for violent fantasies? Or don’t worry. Go to the movies. May I recommend “Grindhouse”? [Althouse: "My parents are actually worried about retaliation against Asians."]

Shouldn’t some Association of Anglo-American Journalists complain about this? Peter Brimelow was an English student at Stanford, years ago. He was studying business, but he was an English student…oh, never mind.