RT Article
T1 Nostalgia, Entitlement and Victimhood: The Synergy of White Genocide and Misogyny
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 34
IS 8
SP 1810
OP 1825
A1 Wilson, Chris
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1818742004
AB Western countries are experiencing a wave of violent attacks against places of worship, stores, schools and other crowded locations. The perpetrators of these attacks explain their actions as necessary to stem an “invasion” of immigrants which threatens the very existence of the white race. At the same time, many of the same countries have experienced very similar attacks motivated by a particularly contemporary form of misogyny. Known as incels, an abbreviation of involuntary celibate, young men in this community believe they are denied sexual partners by feminism and societal norms of male attractiveness. These two series of attacks are generally understood to be separate (if overlapping) forms of extremism. In this article I contend that the concepts of white genocide central to white nationalism and misogynistic incelism are more intertwined than it appears. Misogyny and the notion of white genocide are mutually escalatory. Rather than separate and complementary forms of extremism, the two ideologies converge to create a single more volatile worldview, one which makes its proponents more prone to the use of violence. Misogyny and white genocide are synergistic, their effect greater than the sum of their parts.
K1 Terrorism
K1 Misogyny
K1 incels
K1 White nationalism
K1 White genocide
DO 10.1080/09546553.2020.1839428