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The kinds of things on this site that are said of women and society aren't really all that different from what we hear all the time in raps lyrics such as the perceived "misogyny" and "violence". It's as if believing that incels are evil people for saying such things is 'common sense' but telling rappers in the hood that they're evil people for saying such things is 'racist'.
And it's not like you can make the argument that the difference is between an imaginary power fantasy versus a desire to commit an actual act of violence because in rap, gangsters will often brag about the amount of rival gang members they've literally killed which is a lot more frequent than any hate crimes done by self-proclaimed incels which, by the way, happen much less.
Now, rap music is criticized all the time for its harsh lyrics but it's not as much seen as a reflection of that rapper's moral character in the same way it is for incels. As a matter of fact, there's always an emphasis put on the overall context of the music and where's it's coming from, what the singer's lives were like growing up, what they had to go through and the tribulations they had to face, etc. but in the case of incels, there doesn't seem to be as much of a desire to get to the roots of our own problems that are causing us to say the things that we say.
I used rap as just one example but it's just that the empathy that's granted to other groups, despite the things that they do or say, isn't extended toward us. I wonder why.
And it's not like you can make the argument that the difference is between an imaginary power fantasy versus a desire to commit an actual act of violence because in rap, gangsters will often brag about the amount of rival gang members they've literally killed which is a lot more frequent than any hate crimes done by self-proclaimed incels which, by the way, happen much less.
Now, rap music is criticized all the time for its harsh lyrics but it's not as much seen as a reflection of that rapper's moral character in the same way it is for incels. As a matter of fact, there's always an emphasis put on the overall context of the music and where's it's coming from, what the singer's lives were like growing up, what they had to go through and the tribulations they had to face, etc. but in the case of incels, there doesn't seem to be as much of a desire to get to the roots of our own problems that are causing us to say the things that we say.
I used rap as just one example but it's just that the empathy that's granted to other groups, despite the things that they do or say, isn't extended toward us. I wonder why.