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He claimed to have been in contact with BOTH Harper-Mercer and Rodger with a username associated with an XBOX username of his: Xboxlightside<ref>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59j83n/everything-we-know-about-alek-minassian-the-alleged-toronto-van-attacker</ref> only on 4chan and Reddit. This is dubious of course, as neither Rodger nor Harper-Mercer had any notability prior to their acts. | He claimed to have been in contact with BOTH Harper-Mercer and Rodger with a username associated with an XBOX username of his: Xboxlightside<ref>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59j83n/everything-we-know-about-alek-minassian-the-alleged-toronto-van-attacker</ref> only on 4chan and Reddit. This is dubious of course, as neither Rodger nor Harper-Mercer had any notability prior to their acts. | ||
As stated in many | As stated in many [[incel communities]], the main policy of the respective admins is to delete any calls for murder or [[suicide]], and to contact authorities if necessary. | ||
==Prosecution== | ==Prosecution== | ||
Contrary to popular [[feminism|feminist]] narrative, Alek was ''not'' charged with the crime of terrorism, or 83.1 of the Canadian criminal code. Experts in terrorism such as popular terrorism-subject podcaster Phil Gurskie say that he was probably not charged with terrorism because incel is not an ideology, but rather a life circumstance.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTx39aqEwFo</ref> Minassian's [[Facebook]] post was largely a [[shitpost]], a.k.a posts made insincerely. In Minassian's case, the insincere part being his pretending being [[incel]] is being part of a political movement. | Contrary to popular [[feminism|feminist]] narrative, Alek was ''not'' charged with the crime of terrorism, or 83.1 of the Canadian criminal code. Experts in terrorism such as popular terrorism-subject podcaster Phil Gurskie say that he was probably not charged with terrorism because incel is not an ideology, but rather a life circumstance.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTx39aqEwFo</ref> Minassian's [[Facebook]] post was largely a [[shitpost]], a.k.a posts made insincerely. In Minassian's case, the insincere part being his pretending being [[incel]] is being part of a political movement. | ||