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    1. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

      "Incel" was a term actually coined by a queer Toronto woman in the 90s to give a name to how she was feeling at the time. It morphed into something horrific. "I can't uninvent this word, nor restrict it to the nicer people who need it." https://www.elle.com/culture/news/amp34512/woman-who-started-incel-movement/ …

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    2. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

      Self-described incels today are almost entirely men who are laser-focused on their inability to have sex & blame women. Of the manosphere communities, incels are the most virulently misogynistic.

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    3. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

      Incels have a variety of memes & tropes that they return to constantly, such as "Stacy" (attractive women who have sex) & "Chad" (attractive men who have sex). Non-incels are described as "normies" & they're also derided.

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    4. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

      Elliot Rodger, the Isla Vista shooter, is worshipped (semi-ironically, but also semi-seriously) as a kind of god. His manifesto is shared & quoted & he's constantly deployed as a meme. https://www.facebook.com/SupremeGentlemanMemes/?ref=br_rs …

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    5. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

      Incels differ in important ways from Men's Rights Activists. While both movements are misogynistic at their core, MRAs deploy a human rights framework to argue men are oppressed. Incels don't talk about rights, they just hate.

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    6. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

      Incel language is often explicitly racist & they can be especially focused on interracial relationships. That element of racial panic is prominent in Elliot Rodger's manifesto.

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    7. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

      There are a number of online destinations where incels gather and are radicalized. /pol/ on 4chan. r/incels on Reddit was popular before it was shutdown. They moved to r/braincels, but it's not as widely used. Also SlutHate, the forum where Elliot Rodger posted (formerly PUAHate)

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    8. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

      Incels often play out violent fantasies online. People who report on the community, like @DavidFutrelle, have been trying to warn us that more incels will turn those fantasies into reality. Even now they're talking about acid attacks & mass rapes.http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2018/04/24/incels-hail-toronto-van-driver-who-killed-10-as-a-new-elliot-rodger-talk-of-future-acid-attacks-and-mass-rapes/ …

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    9. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

      The path to radicalization for incels often starts with the Red Pill/Pick-Up Artist communities. They try to utilize the pseudo-scientific/dehumanizing seduction techniques, still can't get laid & become infuriated. That's the path Elliot Rodger went down.

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    10. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

      To clarify, the manosphere is a catch-all term that refers to a number of online male communities that overlap, branch off, interface & oppose each other in complicated ways. It includes pick-up artists, men's rights activists, incels, men going their own way etc.

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      Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

      An important point: if Minassian was an incel & the author of that Facebook post, his attack should probably be described as terrorism, although the lone wolf variety. Incels have an ideology & the goal is to terrorize women & "normies."

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        2. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

          Incels & the broader manosphere are an important component of what we've come to think of as the alt-right (depending on your definition of that term). Misogyny is the most common gateway drug to other forms of hate.https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/14/13576192/alt-right-sexism-recruitment …

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        3. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

          There's a lot more to say on this topic, and we still don't have all the information about yesterday's attack, so I'll just end with a few recommendations for further reading.

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        4. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

          To better understand the rise of these toxic masculine online subcultures & how they interface with one another & the rest of the alt-right, @AngNagle's book "Kill All Normies" is an invaluable resource. https://www.amazon.ca/Kill-All-Normies-Culture-Alt-Right/dp/1785355430/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524591601&sr=8-1&keywords=kill+all+normies …

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        5. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

          4chan & the "ironic-but-not-really" brand of hatred it created is a big part of the incel story. For a primer on how that platform evolved, read @DaleBeran's essay.https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb …

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        6. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

          To really understand incels & the manosphere, you have to dive into the archives of "We Hunted the Mammoth." @DavidFutrelle has been following this stuff for years.http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/ 

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        7. Arshy Mann‏Verified account @ArshyMann Apr 24

          For a more crowdsourced approach to understanding incel culture specifically, take a look at r/inceltears.https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/ 

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        2. Thadeus‏ @dreadpirate_76 Apr 24
          Replying to @ArshyMann

          Only because women and normies have terrorized them all day, everyday. Even as an incel sleeps, they dream of watching all the happy people laughing and pointing at them whilst they all have Earth-shattering sex just to spite them.

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        3. BDkins 🌊‏ @BDkinss Apr 25
          Replying to @dreadpirate_76 @ArshyMann

          How sad that some ppl think that women are "terrorizing" them simply by existing. Most grown-ups learn that if they didn't grow up to become "desirable" to others, then find a purpose in life that fulfills you without hurting, & perhaps--heres a thought--actually helping others.

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        2. Thomas Pluck‏ @thomaspluck Apr 25
          Replying to @ArshyMann

          They aren't lone wolves if they have a community of thousands radicalizing them to commit terror.

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        2. Trump is Unindicted Co-conspirator‏ @UnitePink Apr 24
          Replying to @ArshyMann @revmagdalen

          who knew 4chan would morph into terrorism amirite

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        3. Rev. Magdalen ||This Machine Dismantles Patriarchy‏ @revmagdalen Apr 25
          Replying to @UnitePink @ArshyMann

          Well I mean and @catfitz did but nobody believed us.

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        4. Trump is Unindicted Co-conspirator‏ @UnitePink Apr 25
          Replying to @revmagdalen @ArshyMann @catfitz

          right? the defense for the subculture is that they’re not really they’re just kidding- well half kidding- to shock normies pay no attention to the white supremacy style guidepic.twitter.com/KaVMaRhHkm

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        1. Q. Public‏ @JohnOrJane Apr 25
          Replying to @ArshyMann @shanebarry17

          Thank you! Couldn’t believe Mark Saunders, the Toronto Chief of Police, said he wasn’t a terrorist. Free pass for white dudes to run people over? @TorontoComms

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        2. Alyce Miller “Hidden Genius”‏ @AlyceLMiller Apr 25
          Replying to @ArshyMann

          It's terrorism, plain and simple, though the law defines "terrorism" as being driven by politics or religion. But I'd say offing women is terrorism at its finest.

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        3. Mike Lewis‏ @MikeLewisTO Apr 25
          Replying to @AlyceLMiller @ArshyMann

          Canada's definition of terrorism also includes furthering ideological goals, so - if the reports about the motivation of the Toronto attack are true - then it definitely qualifies.

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        1. Holly Jolly Rext (he him)‏ @ThesaurusRext Apr 24
          Replying to @ArshyMann

          I'm intensely curious about the 'blood on hands' concept. A million little shoves from forum/reddit postings, "news articles", memes and yt clips, from tens of thousands of strangers, collaborated to make a monster. Our society needs to grow into one that can abate the shove.

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        1. Jozef Garcia  🔬 🦊‏ @jozefgarcia Apr 25
          Replying to @ArshyMann

          Yes, I agree with this statement. The Incel movement is dangerously in the realm of ideals with those of terrorist groups. Do they promote harm with no remorse? Terrorist.

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        1. Karolyn Smith‏ @KSmithSpeaking Apr 24
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          Terrorism is needs to have a political motivation-

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        1. flowerpower‏ @peacekat13 Apr 24
          Replying to @ArshyMann

          100% and thank you for this "extra alot" feed. You did great🙌 I needed clarification and you cleared me up!

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