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I invite you to post the best example of this incel subculture. These are the guys who were elevating Elliot Roger (UCSB killer) to hero status, no?

sillysaurus3 9y ago
The subthread wasn't about that, though. It was about the fact that they might turn to drugs because their group is now banned. That's a weak hypothesis not supported by evidence, so it was stupid to bring it up. But given their situation, it didn't seem too far from the truth.
- gooseus 9y ago
  Ah yeah, I wasn't really responding to your whole thing... Honestly I wish you hadn't removed your post cause now there isn't any context for understanding all these replies. I'm curious about how close your hypothesis is to mine: I think the fact that young, white men are finding "solace" in opiods, neo-nazi and other fringe groups (including incels) may share a root cause in being brought up with unrealistic expectations of the world (sense of entitlement) and feelings of failure/disappointment with their current position in a post-recession reality. I also have no evidence, just an intuition born of reading various things and seeing some people close to me grow up and end up in rehab... no one close to me has died, thankfully. Anyways, the same intuition leads me to believe you probably made your comment in good faith and if that's true, I hope this community response doesn't discourage you from speaking your mind in the future. Unpopular speech made in good faith is far better than popular speech in bad faith.
- fe2ijwe99 9y ago
  You might be better off going outside, and advocating for better mental health services instead of trying to create a strawman about how shutting web forums kills people. Anyone that gets on drugs b/c their forum is shutoff/blocked has deeper addiction problems. And sitting on Reddit all day being angry isn't helping. It's just avoiding the underlying problem.

sillysaurus3 9y ago

The subthread wasn't about that, though. It was about the fact that they might turn to drugs because their group is now banned. That's a weak hypothesis not supported by evidence, so it was stupid to bring it up. But given their situation, it didn't seem too far from the truth.

gooseus 9y ago
Ah yeah, I wasn't really responding to your whole thing... Honestly I wish you hadn't removed your post cause now there isn't any context for understanding all these replies. I'm curious about how close your hypothesis is to mine: I think the fact that young, white men are finding "solace" in opiods, neo-nazi and other fringe groups (including incels) may share a root cause in being brought up with unrealistic expectations of the world (sense of entitlement) and feelings of failure/disappointment with their current position in a post-recession reality. I also have no evidence, just an intuition born of reading various things and seeing some people close to me grow up and end up in rehab... no one close to me has died, thankfully. Anyways, the same intuition leads me to believe you probably made your comment in good faith and if that's true, I hope this community response doesn't discourage you from speaking your mind in the future. Unpopular speech made in good faith is far better than popular speech in bad faith.
fe2ijwe99 9y ago
You might be better off going outside, and advocating for better mental health services instead of trying to create a strawman about how shutting web forums kills people. Anyone that gets on drugs b/c their forum is shutoff/blocked has deeper addiction problems. And sitting on Reddit all day being angry isn't helping. It's just avoiding the underlying problem.