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"Smart But Quiet"? Try: "Mean Asshole"
Smart? I read his "plays" - they were juvenile. His video? He didn't seem particularly bright.
Quiet? Yes, lots of people described him as quiet. But Nikki Giovanni has a better handle on him - she describes him as mean. He intimidated female students. He stalked them, he photographed them with his cellphone when he knew it was annoying to them. He was trying to demean them. His plays scared male as well as female students. They were just plain mean.
And he was a foreigner. Yeah, he's been in the US for a while, but he is a foreigner. So he's a mean, foreign asshole. That doesn't make him much different from mean, native-born assholes. We've got plenty of those. I guess he just figured he'd join the crowd.