Kenneth Eng, Author of Terrible Dragon Novels, Wants Credit for Virginia Tech Massacre

If there's one thing that can be said about our good friend Kenneth Eng — author of Why I Hate Black People, an article that got him fired from AsianWeekly, and Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate, a fruity novel about anthropomorphic dragons who like to make out with one another — it's this: just when you think he's taken his hate-filled schtick to its most ludicrous extreme, he ups the ante.

The latest word from ToM's favorite self-aggrandizing racist furry: not only does he think the Virginia Tech massacre was "the funniest thing I ever read in my life," but he wants credit for it.

Eng likes to believe that his own hate-filled writings about non-Asians motivated Cho, and as far as we can tell, he's serious. Eng also claims to "admire" Cho for the worst individual mass-murder in American history, and tells the Voice that he, at one time, planned to go on his own killing spree while he was a student at NYU, but couldn't afford a firearm.

"It's speculative but I think that there is a good chance that Cho may have read my work," says Eng. "I might have had something to do with [the VT shootings] because it's kind of conspicuous that [Cho] would shoot all these people so shortly after AsianWeek published all my articles." Cho, in his manifesto, railed against "you," making no reference to race. But Eng believes he understands why Cho felt compelled to commit the murders and applauds him for doing so. "A part of me wishes I was Cho," says Eng, who is the same age as the murderer, 23. "He is my hero."

He then proceeds to say that his expulsion from NYU was predicated by his teachers fear that he was capable of killing someone, and then boasts: "Frankly, I was planning on going to NYU and going on a rampage. The only thing that stopped me was I couldn't afford a gun."

When you give a statement like that to the Village Voice, you don't have to be an Eng-level genius to predict that the cops are going to come a'knockin'.

This guy's a total turd and we really shouldn't be paying attention to him, but I do find it frankly unbelievable that Eng has go gleefully ruined his entire life with the completely naive belief that his hateful schtick is going to sell more copies of his insufferable dragon furry novels. Which, lest we forget, is what this is all really about.

Sharing in the Gory [Village Voice]