Incels and the Men Radicalised to Hate Women, with Laura Bates and Sonia Sodha
Intelligence Squared
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Online Grooming Tactics
- Extremist communities use the internet to carefully groom boys, even those unfamiliar with terms like 'incel'.
- They introduce misogynistic ideologies through memes, comedy, and viral videos, which they see as a way of 'adding cherry flavor to children's medicine'.
- This gradual desensitization to misogyny can lead to the normalization of jokes about rape and radicalization into the alt-right, white supremacy, and neo-Nazism.
- Social media platforms, like YouTube with its vast user base, have an enormous influence, especially on young people, and are instrumental in spreading these ideologies.
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