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Hatewatch has identified a previously pseudonymous author and ideologue whose writings in the 2000s and early 2010s heavily influenced the 鈥渕anosphere,鈥 a loose network of blogs, forums, websites and influencers who support rolling back women鈥檚 rights, reject feminism and advocate for rigid gender roles.
Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caught our attention through May 24.
Ten years ago, a misogynist incel declared聽鈥渨ar on women鈥 before embarking on a deadly rampage in the beachside community of Isla Vista, California. On the evening of May 23, 2014, Elliot Rodger stabbed his two housemates and their friend to death before traveling to his ultimate target: a UC Santa Barbara sorority house. In his manifesto, he wrote that these women 鈥渞epresent everything I hate in the female gender.鈥
Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caught our attention through March 8.
On Thursday Tres Genco was聽聽to six years and eight months in prison followed by five years on post-prison supervision for his 2020 plot to 鈥渟laughter鈥 women at an Ohio university.
Hard-right movements are based on exclusion and the construction of hierarchies.