WIRED has been a giant pile of infected corpses for years now.
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Self-identified incels have certainly put some hair-raising message-board ones and zeroes out there. But in terms of actual incidents, they aren't even a rounding error in the violence statistics.
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Pao's trying to inflame something like the Red Scare -- a moral panic loosely steered by a set of policy goals. Except there really were communist infiltrators in FedGov back then, not just a handful of isolated losers.
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And as you noted already, this is nonsensical if you actually want to address real harms in an effective way. However, it makes perfect sense if you want to create the administrative equivalent of overlapping fields of fire.
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If you want to pathologize and police group X, One Cool Trick is to demonize (X && Y) && (X && !Y). Sex-having bros are a menace; so are virgin dudes.
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On an administrative level, this just provides deniability for crushing X, but it's deeper than that. On an individual/psychological level, this is called a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind … and it's authoritarianism/cult brainwashing 101.
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