Sets of “sad losers” with similar ideological influences engaging in mass murder is a *pattern* of mass murder. That’s part of what the idea of homegrown terrorism explains, the radicalization of individuals through ideological influence to produce patterns of mass murder. https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/989458677789704192 …
Incel/misogynistic online groups are pretty active and overt about this, which is why SPLC added two of them to the hate group index recently. Personal factors play a role, but so does political radicalization.
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Right, but hate group doesn't necessarily mean what they do is terrorism, tho it can be. I'm open to this falling under the 'terrorism' umbrella, but I guess my main point is I worry we're getting to a place where we don't take things seriously unless we call them 'terrorism'.
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And that's worrying because there is a ton of hate group and other systemic, ideological social activity which is definitely NOT terrorism but which needs to be dealt with, and which is a much, much bigger problem than terrorism is.
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What empirical question are you waiting on to determine if this is terrorism? Or is it a conceptual question?
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