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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

      I feel like @jonkay needs to talk to @BarbaraRKay (Jon is broadly right, by the way, although better way to phrase it is that these mass murders almost never have a simple monocausal explanation even if there is explicit ideology at work).pic.twitter.com/e5VeAEij5U

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

      I'm grateful @barbaraRkay wrote this: "I would have preferred it this had been an act of jihadism." It usefully clarifies how Islamophobes see the world and their active hunger for atrocities that justify that worldview.pic.twitter.com/uN6PSYO3YK

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

          Kay "preferred it this had been an act of jihadism" because for her that makes the world easier to understand. But that's not even true since jihadism itself is not a simple thing.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

          Almost all recent mass shootings or terrorist acts are complex because they involve intersection of troubled and alienated personalities with ideology with social networks. Even if killer has explicit ideology (be it jihadi or Nazi) these factors still interact

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

          If you are a reasonable person, simply saying "jihadi" doesn't explain anything because jihadis themselves are caused. But for Kay jihadis are simply motiveless, uncaused, non-social evil, so they make world easier to understand.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

          And of course alleged Toronto killer Alek Minassian does have ideology (if reporting holds up): "incel rebellion." Misogyny is an ideology, although Kay doesn't want to see that (for obvious reasons).

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Apr 2018

          Which is not to say that Minassian's vile act was "caused" by his ideology. Because ideology is never simple causal lever. It exists in dynamic relationship with personality and social milieu. It's that complexity that Kay wants to deny.

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        2. Jonathan Goldsbie‏Verified account @goldsbie 25 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Doesn't it also speak to conservatism more broadly — that psychic need for things to fit into recognizable categories (e.g., for Kay, gender roles) because they believe order is de facto superior to disorder?

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        3. Jonathan Goldsbie‏Verified account @goldsbie 25 Apr 2018
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          "I used to be with 'it.' But then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it.' And what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me."

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        2. Ivriniel‏ @Ivriniel 25 Apr 2018
          Replying to @OrionKidder @HeerJeet @BarbaraRKay

          Misandry on the other hand, is real according to Kay.pic.twitter.com/ExGuKpyOLc

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        1. The Bookwench  🇨🇦 🐱 🏳️‍🌈 💜‏ @shifter_cat 25 Apr 2018
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          It also relates, tangentially, to C.S. Lewis's observation about wanting your enemies to be as horrible as possible.

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