We say this, but then we say "This guy doesn't believe the right things, ergo he isn't blackpilled, ergo he's bluepilled, ergo he doesn't belong in our community." That's an ideology.
Maybe they're using the wrong words, maybe what they should say is "Being incel isn't an ideology, but what the incels believe, the 'blackpill,' that's an ideology."
Basically this. One is being born an incel, but one can chose to face the real causes of his inceldom or not. The most accurate and realistic explanation of these causes is what we loosely call the blackpill.
Thats why there are millions of incels in this planet, but only a few of blackpilled ones.
Also, thats why we have two kinds of reasons to ban people from here: they are not incels (they are tall and/or good looking) or they are incels that refuse to accept the reasons why they are incels
Also, thats why many incels (like me btw) discover the blackpill just by existing as ugly males (because its just the unavoidable conclusion of a realistic investigation about the causes of our misery) and why some gullible teens that dont even fathom what inceldom is, let alone suffering it themselves, get convinced by it and larp as incels.
Anyway, the media has no problem with incels. Incels are the perfect wageslaves, and they have been so easy to pet that most societies dont even realize they exist. We have NEVER, in the ENTIRE HISTORY OF MANKIND, been a problem to the rulers and priviledged. An entire class of people that involuntarily belong to the same group just because they are the genetic rock bottom of every society and want to push their own agenda? Unheard of.
Their problem is with the blackpilled incels. That why they correctly recognize that ugly males are not the problem (they have never been), the problem are the ones that reject their natural position in the social hierarchy because its simply unfair. That directly challenges the status quo because incels are as essential as any other massive collective in the structure of society. Even if we are servants and slaves and we could individually be jailed and killed, as a collective we cant get jailed or killed, because
the masters need us.
Its like the marxist problem during the whole XX century. The problem is not the proletariat, the problem is the revolutionary proletarians. So, you dont jail and kill every poor person, just the ones that recognize their unfair position in society, reveal against it and make others do the same. You attack the ones that are no longer
alienated. Because, if they all reveal, the status quo is over until a new social contract is agreed upon. And that means the end of the rulers and privilegeds dictatorship. And they are not gonna give up easily, obviously.
Western societies need to keep incels alienated (bluepilled), and the only way to do it is the old and effective state oppression: censoring, jailing, declaring us mentally ill, making us poor, isolated, ignorant and even killing us if necessary.