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https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-monitor-violent-online-threats-light-joker-premiere/story?id=66031356
The FBI has received tips of threatening posts on social media calling for "unspecific mass shootings" linked to the release of the new psychological thriller, "Joker," starring Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix that will hit theaters this Friday, according to a joint intelligence bulletin obtained by ABC News.
These threats have been circling online platforms since at least May 2019, but give no information indicating specific or credible threats to particular locations or venues, the bulletin said.
Some of the threats did contain references to a primarily online group called the involuntary celibate community, or Incels, and a subset that refers to itself as "Clowncels." However, the intelligence community doesn't necessarily regard the group as a whole as a violent one.
"While many Incels do not engage in violence, some within the community encourage or commit violent acts as retribution for perceived societal wrongdoing against them," the bulletin said. "Some Incel attackers have claimed inspiration from previous mass shooters."
(Score: 1, Troll) by exaeta on Friday October 04 2019, @03:09PM (18 children)
Quickly, pick a random group of people and demonize them!
Since when were "incels" a community, and when did it go from "incel" to "Incel". This is not a formally organized group, no more than White people (would you capitalize that? no? same deal.)
Reject the insanity and shun those perpetrating it.
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @03:25PM (2 children)
OK... Left handers are demon spawn. The world was created for right handers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @04:04PM
As one of my T-shirts reads:
"Everyone is born right-handed, only the gifted overcome it."
suck it, northpaw!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday October 04 2019, @09:43PM
Right handed people spend too much time wanking. Left handed people are unable to do this because their dominant hand is their left.
I would give my right arm if I could be ambidextrous.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @03:27PM
It's simple, really. Take the number of microaggressions committed against an ugly or socially awkward male, then divide by the number of times they have had sex to obtain the Incel Rage Quotient. As the number of times they have had sex approaches ZERO, the IRQ approaches INFINITY. That means Incels are a civilization level threat primed for activation, and will commit innumerable attacks using guns, chemical, and biological weapons.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 04 2019, @03:42PM (2 children)
Don't worry, we'll get to our daily immigrants are demons thread soon enough.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @03:53PM (1 child)
Calling immigrants demons is fucked up.
A majority of immigrants have not committed any crimes... obviously after excluding the illegal alien subset.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday October 04 2019, @11:24PM
Oh, yeah? Do you think it won't happen [soylentnews.org]?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 04 2019, @05:03PM (2 children)
When people started using it as a proper noun.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday October 04 2019, @09:46PM (1 child)
I think at the last group meeting the capitalization motion passed by an overwhelming outraged majority.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @01:59AM
the deciding vote was cast by ee cummings
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @07:59PM (1 child)
This is not a random group of people and they are not being demonized (at least not yet). Do try to keep up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 06 2019, @01:30AM
Incels have definitely been demonized by the media. They will regret that.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday October 04 2019, @10:40PM (1 child)
I see a lot of people capitalizing "White," mostly white supremacists...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @04:25AM
Big letter envy
(Score: 2, Informative) by c0lo on Friday October 04 2019, @11:00PM (2 children)
A position of "since I don't know about, there's no such thing, thus you're wrong" (a beefed up sort of argument from ignorance)
[Citation needed]
How about, before doing anything, you start to learn more and take a decision based on the information you find.
Here [wikipedia.org], as a starting point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by exaeta on Saturday October 05 2019, @09:51PM (1 child)
Incel is an abbreviation of involuntary celibrate. It's an adjective, not a proper noun. "Incels, a portmanteau of involuntary celibates" -- Wikipedia.
Anyone who dares to hijack an adjective phrase and group people together for the purpose of demonization is an enemy of rational discourse. Please don't argue with me here, I really don't want to bother schooling you on English grammar rules. Though if you insist I must provide citations, then I will bring out my English textbooks from college and start citing them. Be prepared to have your arguments absolutely demolished, though, if you choose that route.
Proper nouns are reserved for formal names, not informal associations.
The following are not proper nouns:
To get proper noun status, there needs to be a formally organized group:
Simply sharing an ideology is not a qualification for a proper noun/proper adjective. You don't say Gun Rights Supporter, it's in lower case "gun rights supporter" because it is ideology and not a formally organized group. On the other hand, National Rifle Association is correct, because it is formally organized.
Some style guides suggest a concept of "proper adjectives". I don't adhere to these, but it is argubly correct to use capitals to refer to ethnic groups, e.g. Hispanic community, Black community. Ideologies are never proper under any style guide I'm aware of. Topical communities do not constituite formal organization. Thus, incel is never a proper adjective and should not be capitalized.
The reason they want to capitalize it is to suggest that these "incel" topical forums are commuinities and not topical. This is an excuse to blame the group for the actions of a few. The group, however; doesn't formally exist. So this is a content-based crackdown on speech they want to reframe as an out of control hate group.
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday October 05 2019, @10:24PM
It quite peculiar how this 'incel' adjective developed an ideology, don't you think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 05 2019, @01:32AM
They come from Inceladus in the Saturnian System, and they want to rape your women and hear the lamentation of their boyfriends.
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