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You could say the same thing about Muslims and terror attacks. Using your logic, I could point to them and terrorist actions committed by those who identify as

You could say the same thing about Muslims and terror attacks. Using your logic, I could point to them and terrorist actions committed by those who identify as Islamist and use it to justify acts against innocent Muslims pushing those innocents to extremist factions within Islam. You don't help the issue by justifying ostracisation and bullying of those who are unable to seek female/male attention, it only pushes them to the extremes and extreme acts are what they commit in response.

throw_away 7y ago
I'm not justifying it in the slightest. Continuing your analogy, it would be like saying "I don't know why all these people have a problem with Islam, a religion of peace." without recognizing that some people did some things and here we are. I'm not saying that these peoples' reactions are the correct ones, but it's not like they all just spontaneously decided to hate on Muslims one day, randomly. It was almost certainly the wrong reaction, but there was a trigger. Your statement: > I've never understood the term incel (involuntarily celibate) as an insult, incels are just people who cannot get female/male attention for various reasons and some make up crazy conspiracy theories to explain it. makes it seem that you are unaware of this and think that the public's view of incels is just because it thinks they are losers or something. Incels were not even in the public's general awareness until these incidents.