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    1. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

      "There's a sort of an entitlement to sex that is expressed often," @jyangstar says.

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    2. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

      "He will certainly make another court appearance soon," @jyangstar says of the suspect. "He does face 10 counts of first-degree murder."

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    3. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

      The ideology manifests itself in ideas like, "the government should assign ... girlfriends," @DavidFutrelle says.

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    4. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

      "It was very disturbing to see that there is a mass amount of these people," says our caller, David.

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    5. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

      "You get a bunch of angry, very depressed guys that have no faith that anything can change these things," @DavidFutrelle says. "That's a breeding ground for precisely the kind of thing that we saw in Toronto."

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    6. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

      "Of all the misogynistic communities I've looked at online, this is the most frightening," @DavidFutrelle says.

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    7. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

      "The sense of self-shaming really takes a toll on them," psychotherapist Sam Louie says of so-called "incels" in the context of being an ethnic minority.

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    8. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

      "In these message boards, they will tell you, 'If you have not had sex before you left high school, you are defective to the core,'" psychotherapist Sam Louie says.

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    9. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

      "It absolutely is terrorism," @DavidFutrelle says of the Toronto attack.

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    10. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

      "It was gender-based violence. It was indoctrinated via the internet. And it was deadly," @ToulasTake says of the Toronto attack as an act of terrorism.

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      On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

      "It's vile, outright hate," @ToulasTake says of so-called "incel" message boards and forums.

      8:53 AM - 27 Apr 2018
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        2. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

          "It's about positive male role models and trying to break the paradigm of what it means to be a man," says our caller, Tom, about fighting toxic masculinity.

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        3. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

          "There is no clear political goal other than to inflict pain on the people who they think deserve it," @DavidFutrelle says of the so-called "incels."

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        4. On Point - NPR‏Verified account @OnPointRadio Apr 27

          "I think we need to target these specific sites and boards and take them seriously," @ToulasTake says.

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