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"The core incel themes of self-loathing and grievance transformed into violence.
Florence Keen at Kings College London says that in the years since Elliot Rodger's killings, he has been celebrated as some kind of hero by the extreme end of the incel spectrum - but some of those people may just be lionising him purely to get attention.
"People talk about someone 'going ER'," she says. "But sometimes this is performative."
One man who did want to emulate Rodger was Alek Minassian. He killed 10 people in Toronto. He later told the police that he had been
inspired by incel ideas. "I feel like I accomplished my mission," he told investigators.
That dreadful attack led the Canadian authorities to conclude the incel movement was a form of violent extremism. Evidence from recent prosecutions in the UK shows that, as things stand, it has not been defined in a court of law as a terrorist ideology."
Florence Keen at Kings College London says that in the years since Elliot Rodger's killings, he has been celebrated as some kind of hero by the extreme end of the incel spectrum - but some of those people may just be lionising him purely to get attention.
"People talk about someone 'going ER'," she says. "But sometimes this is performative."
One man who did want to emulate Rodger was Alek Minassian. He killed 10 people in Toronto. He later told the police that he had been
inspired by incel ideas. "I feel like I accomplished my mission," he told investigators.
That dreadful attack led the Canadian authorities to conclude the incel movement was a form of violent extremism. Evidence from recent prosecutions in the UK shows that, as things stand, it has not been defined in a court of law as a terrorist ideology."
Incels: A new terror threat to the UK?
Is the incel belief system followed by Jake Davison, the Plymouth gunman, a terror threat to the UK?
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