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#660 William Costello: The Psychology of Involuntary Celibates (Incels), and Modern Mating

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The Importance of Notoriety in the Media

In the UK, we had our first alleged incel attack last year with Jake Davis in case. And you could literally watch his YouTube videos on the news. But a senior lecturer in terrorism studies who wrote a great paper about incels from a terrorism point of view says it would be a mistake to categorize incel violence as terrorism. It's not even clear that incels ever even meet each other offline.

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