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from the some-people-just-can't-take-a-joker dept.
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: 2, Insightful) by Arik on Friday October 04 2019, @09:09PM
That's an incredible bit of projection there.
To take it seriously is to immediately disprove it. If I was trying to convince people that immigration is bad this would be a horrible example to do it. No one was born on the internet, without immigration the community would have never existed in the first place.
I don't think immigration is a bad thing, not at all. But reality is nuanced. Most things aren't just wholly good or wholly bad, they have complicated relationships with other things, they can have positive effects in one setting and negative effects in another, often simultaneously!
"Because "new people entering a place" = immigration or some bullshit."
That's not bullshit, that's actually what the word means.
"Shit, even I am too young to have been around for the beginning of eternal september."
And that does make it a difficult conversation to have. If you've never known what I am talking about, how could you be expected to miss it?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?