In all the discussions around Incels — a term violently wrested out of an obscure internet subculture after last week’s van rampage — a less talked about aspect is the overlap of its foundational misogyny with racism. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/05/01/the-foundational-misogyny-of-incels-overlaps-with-racism.html … via @torontostar
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Replying to @ShreeParadkar @TorontoStar
“In all the discussions around Incels” invites the obvious question: WHAT discussion? Where, but in the self-important pages of internet esoterica does anyone attempt to make a dark conspiracy from a one-off tragedy? Are you really so bereft of material?
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The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks Incels as part of their wider monitoring of the “Male Supremacy” movement. The “We Hunted the Mammoth” blog has been monitoring and reporting on the violent, misogynistic rhetoric from the “Manosphere” for years. Just because you aren’t
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Gosh....how can any woman sleep at night? And to think they walk among us!! Thank you - it’s comforting to know there’s a dedicated crew of IncelBusters keeping us safe from this nefarious crime wave.
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Replying to @starling5857 @Ivriniel and
How would you know what anyone has been tweeting about with your brand new Twitter / 0 following account?
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Replying to @RobynWins111 @Ivriniel and
How would I know? Uh....I can read? How do you come to know what they’re tweeting about. My initial point was directed at a column in The Star. Maybe you need that context. As to my ranking....
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Replying to @starling5857 @Ivriniel and
Oh, pardon me. You opened a Twitter account to tell a writer what she need or needn't write. Gotcha.
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Replying to @RobynWins111 @Ivriniel and
Or....I opened it to add a voice to the debate? Sorta like the writer, and you, did too?
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OK, backing up....I took issue with ‘the writer’s’ opening thesis of “discussions” surrounding the Incel angle, knowing it to be (as do you) arising from one wacko post the perpetrator left behind on Facebook. It feels an early exaggeration....
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