I'm interested in articles about understanding jihadis and Nazis because there's something there that I don't understand and want to. But sexually frustrated young men? Thanks but I don't need the guidebook to that one.
The similarity is prob at individual level characteristics.The incel is(imo)prob more like the lone wolf jihadist,who r more likely to suffer mental health issues,isolation, &carry out those types of attacks.The average incel is not like the more ideologically/grp driven militant
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I think that's all fair. But I don't think the differences change the fact that some of these are genuine problems that likely effect a much larger group of men than the already radicalized/abusive/violent (and that cld be addressed w/o rolling back progress for other groups).
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It's a reality probably without a solution beyond containment of the violence, and hoping social policies resolve some of the other issues. But There is no solution to a lot of problems, violence often burns itself out and societies have historically always had angry young 1/
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How abt, as we raise awareness against specific forms of bullying, we set abt making it socially unacceptable to ridicule ppl for being virgins and/or "losers who can't get any"? How abt we don't accept jokes ridiculing ppl's appearance, generally, not just in some cases?
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I agree it(or something like it) should, in theory, be a rule. But I dont think it will ever be consistently applied. But Im also not against jokes about societal issues per se, though I agree some of this seems unnecesarily cruel at times.
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Organized opposition to racist jokes isn't a rule, but it's certainly been a big part of reducing the social acceptability of racism. And I'm not talking abt jokes re: societal issues. I'm talking abt our acceptance of jokes abt ppl being *ugly* (physically unattractive).
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I agree people shouldnt abuse individuals for being 'ugly.' I wouldnt make incel jokes off limits though(any more than I would about any other political/societal group) But it depends on the joke.
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I never mentioned incel jokes. Don't know where you got that. I said "How abt we don't accept jokes ridiculing ppl's appearance?" We don't accept this with some groups (mocking the appearance of someone who's disabled, for instance), but how abt we stop accepting it generally?
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you also said "we set abt making it socially unacceptable to ridicule ppl for being virgins and/or "losers who can't get any"? "
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