2. At issue is whether ideologically shaped or directed violence warrants the label of 'terrorism'. Often people seem reluctant to use the label for violence suffused by right-wing, misogynist, or racist views, but very quick to apply it to violence by people of colour or Muslims
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You mean, the incel community isn't enough of an organized political/paramilitary org (like Da'esh or whatever)? Thus members who do violence in the hopes of furthering its amorphous, yet largely coherent misogynist political agenda, might not be performing "terrorism?" Right?
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It's more that, from what I understand, it is not unified behind a programme of political change. It's not really a movement/org. So I'm not yet sure whether this is an act of personal vengeance or expression, or an attempt to effect institutional change.
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Ah, okay. That's fair. I tend to think the extreme-misogynists, call them the, 'alt-misogynists,' if you will, are seeking political & inst'l change (I take calls for state-assigned "girlfriends" seriously), but I can see how this point would be a bit of a judgement call and YMMV
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Once performative violence is being used to manipulate policy arrangements, I'm pretty comfortable calling it terrorism, because at that point it is analytically helpful to understand what they're doing as such, compared to resentful but non-programmatic violence.
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Yeah, see I think the performative violence *is* being used by the alt-misogyists to both attempt to manipulate policy & also recruit people to their cause and intimidate/scare women out of the public and political sphere. I'm fine with your criteria/definition.
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Certainly in some cases. It's helpful to approach Elliot Rodger as a terrorist. I'm less sure what to make of Minassian. There's some variation in how well defined the political aspirations of these online misogynist communities are, from what I can tell.
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