For example, they are quick to point out that many incels self-identify as nonwhite, although their discussions of race fall along existing racist lines that stereotype Asians as effeminate and Black men as dangerously virile.

They reject the framing of incels that is common among white nationalists, that incels epitomize the “ great replacement” afflicting white people, either as victims of degeneracy or a supposedly Jewish plot to promote pornography in order to stop white people from reproducing. The wiki authors disavow the early incel-related forums that radicalized figures like Rodger, as well as more well-known far-right forums often frequented by incels, like 4chan, 8chan, and certain spaces on Reddit.

The Incel Wiki falls into a relatively recent pattern of incel attempts to mainstream themselves. “Timeless Quotes on Women” by “eminent figures throughout history” from the Incel Wiki And, of course, a look at their “Timeless Quotes on Women” page reveals that they find justification and precedent for their ideology in antiquity just the same as many of the other hate groups that Pharos documents.

The Incel Wiki projects inceldom back into history by looking for historical figures to claim as “protocels” (Jesus Christ is a notable example, despite evidence that Mary Magdalene may have been his lover) and look to historical authors for precedents to their modern ideas. The Incel Wiki, created in 2018 after a fight with Wikipedia editors over the content of Wikipedia’s article on incels, serves as a repository and rehabilitation effort for this ideology. Online, incel communities are characterized largely by bigotry and nihilism, with particular vitriol directed towards women, and incel communities have a high overlap with other hate groups as well as a complex ideology of their own. Since then, they have been responsible for dozens of deaths, including several mass shootings. The shooter, Elliot Rodger, had been an active member of an early online incel community and left behind a lengthy manifesto that turned him into a martyr for the then-burgeoning movement. This subculture was launched into the national consciousness after the 2014 Isla Vista shootings. Incels, or “involuntary celibates,” are an online subculture consisting almost entirely of men who consider themselves unable to find sexual or romantic partners. Clicking on these links will not generate traffic for that site but will bring you, in some cases, to pages that proudly advocate bigoted ideas and violence against women. It documents many claims that the Incel Wiki makes about women by linking to archived versions of pages there. This post was researched and written by Tao Beloney ’23, Pharos StaffĬontent and Link Warning: This article discusses misogyny, sexual violence, and mass violence. Land Acknowledgement: Pharos is researched, written, and published online at Vassar College, an institution situated in the homeland of the Munsee Lenape people, who lived here for thousands of years before the arrival of European colonists and continue to live today as the Stockbridge-Munsee community in Wisconsin, the Delaware Tribe and the Delaware Nation in Oklahoma, and the Munsee Delaware Nation in Ontario.

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