Who are the 'Incels'?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In the aftermath of the mass murder in Plymouth, attention is focusing on the gunman Jake Davison's history of misogyny and involvement in "incel" culture. But what is this culture, what's driving it, how dangerous is it - and how can it be fought?
We're joined by brilliant experts Dr. Maria Norris and Sian Norris to discuss this phenomenon.
We're also joined by climate activist Mikaela Loach to discuss the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change report - and what we can do to confront the existential threat facing our species.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, it is great to see everyone sort of. If you're list, if you're watching |
| 0:13.0 | live, hello, and if you're listening to the podcast equally, hello, I should do a little |
| 0:17.7 | apologies first. We didn't do a show last week, quite abruptly, for a slightly technical |
| 0:22.6 | hitch. And because I'm fortunate, I did get COVID time in Ireland that knocked everything |
| 0:27.4 | a little bit, of course, we had a backlog of stuff to deal with. But the channel is back |
| 0:32.2 | doing, we've got this documentary coming up, which I'll explain very shortly. And we've |
| 0:37.5 | got some absolutely fantastic interviews coming up with a range of truly fascinating individuals |
| 0:43.2 | about a whole range of topics. But I will come on to that shortly. Now, today we're talking |
| 0:47.6 | in the aftermath of the horrific events in Plymouth, Britain's biggest first machining |
| 0:53.8 | indeed in over a decade, in which five people were shot dead by Jake Davidson. Now, obviously, |
| 1:02.2 | the facts of what's happened will come out in the coming days, weeks, and months ahead. |
| 1:07.6 | What we do know about the gunman, 22 year old Jake Davidson, is that he was immersed in |
| 1:13.8 | what is often described as incel culture online. Before, in the days before, he obviously |
| 1:22.8 | was responsible for the massacre which took place. He ran to the 16 year old girl that |
| 1:26.9 | women are arrogant and entitled beyond belief. On another forum that he was bitter and jealous, |
| 1:35.1 | that women treat men with zero respect or even view them as human beings. Now, before he |
| 1:41.0 | killed five people, including his mother and a three-year-old girl, this showed very striking |
| 1:48.1 | evidence of an attachment to so-called incel culture. Now, some of you may be familiar |
| 1:53.6 | with what incel culture is or those may not be. And the whole point of the show is I'm |
| 1:59.4 | going to be joined by these two fantastic experts who are going to educate me as well as |
| 2:04.8 | everybody else. It's going to be a very, very educational and informative show about |
| 2:09.5 | a phenomenon which really should have been discussed, I suppose, on shows like this |
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