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Incels Are the New Terror Threat
The misogynist ideology is creating terrorists. We should be worried.
Last month, 22-year-old Jake Davison killed five people, including a three-year-old girl and his own mother, in Plymouth, England. Then he shot himself. Initial media reports spoke of a “domestic incident” but as investigations went on it was quickly revealed that Davison was deeply enmeshed in the misogynist online “incel” community. He went on hateful rants about women on his YouTube channel, that has since been taken down. He described women as shallow and stupid, saying most of them only care about money. He complained about being a virgin, and even justified sexual assault because “women don’t need men no more”. “I’m so beaten down and defeated by life … that drive that I once had is gone. I try … but I’m at the point now where it’s like, why do I even bother,” he said in a video where he referred to himself as “the terminator.”
In another post on social media, he claimed that incels are “essentially a race of outcasts, abused and forgotten by humanity” who deserve “a better place in society”.
2020: A Year of Misogynistic Terrorism
The discussion led to debate in the UK about whether incel violence should be reclassified as terrorism. It is an essential question…
