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Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care
(arstechnica.com)
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Fundamentalist religion is at the top of the toxic culture, and it has been around since before the incel term.
Anyone offering easy answers to complex questions should be suspect. And that does largely incriminate all religious groups around the world. They often espouse seemingly decent and benign ideologies. But unfortunately the mindset that latches on to those things, idealogues; are the danger. Even if the ideology themselves aren't necessarily.
We had an easy answer - a decent paying job that offered a decent lifestyle and a hope for a better future but the rich took it away.
Sometimes they are so conditioned that they don't even think of their bigotry as bigotry.
I think organized religion fills their heads with problematic ideas about gender roles.
Heh, while religion isn't required for that. It's impossible to argue that it doesn't help with it. Putting faith in anything and turning off critical thinking is always a recipe for disaster.