greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 15
th, 2021 at 12:47pm:
Frank wrote on Aug 15
th, 2021 at 12:44pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 14
th, 2021 at 7:55pm:
I haven't seen something that white since ... well ... since the terrorist attack in New Zealand.
Bwian pegged this as 'farw wright tewrrowrism'. In your befogged minds 'white' is now 'far right'. The guy was mental, obviously, ...
Are you suggesting there are mass murderers who
aren't mental?
Sometimes, a nutter is just a nutter, even when he’s a homicidal nutter.
In the case of Jake Davison, the Plymouth killer who murdered five people, then himself, the indications are that he was a sad, bitter, angry man with a grudge against society in general and women in particular. He didn’t have a girlfriend, and, like every other sad case nowadays, from cannibals to neo-Nazis, he found company and a label online. At any other time, we’d be content to call him an evil creep, a sadistic coward or possibly a homicidal loon, and confine ourselves to the valid question of how his shotgun licence was renewed.
Now, because identity looms so large in the culture, and because the internet makes it so easy for likeminded lunatics to find each other, we find him conveniently categorised as an incel, an involuntary celibate, a category he toyed with online. Once, if you couldn’t get a girlfriend or get married – and several blameless men I know were at one time or another in that not uncommon position – you were just a normal bloke with a girl problem; now there’s a debate about whether to categorise incels as terrorists, up there with the Real IRA and IS.
The BBC seems oddly willing to entertain the idea that incels should be designated as terrorists, possibly because it gives a boost to the notion that misogyny should be categorised as a hate crime – an already dodgy category. Sarah Smith on the Today programme, for instance, pressed Jonathan Hall, the government’s terrorism adviser, about the necessity of identifying radical misogynists in this way. He wavered a bit, and said it was possible, but that since terrorism was defined as using force or violence to advance beliefs or ideology, the definition was already open to expansion and if there was more of this sort of thing, well, it was possible.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/08/why-incels-arent-terrorists/