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BardWatch She/Her Anti-Hate-Brigade  4mo ago (text post) 66 thread views #283731

Bard spotting on Bluesky 14 July 2024 :marseyrandom:

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Gary Horses (@khandozo.bsky.social):

Every time a story comes out that a violent boy or man was bullied in school, I really wish they'd talk to the girls and women who had to be around that guy. Killings are rarely a first act of violence.

Colleen Morrissey (@colleenmoz.bsky.social):

The way misogyny is so common that it's not considered a red flag for mass violence even when it is literally one of the most reliable early indicators...

AkivaMCohen (@akivamcohen.bsky.social):

Is it? Or is it just a common factor in the shooter population without being an indicative tell because it's also way too common among nonshooters?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's significant enough that, as a comorbid factor, addressing misogyny directly addresses violent extremism on social media platforms. As a common factor among all the hate groups that were on Reddit, it also scaled in intensity directly to the intensity of violent rhetoric.

AkivaMCohen (@akivamcohen.bsky.social):

Yeah, I'm just wondering if it's actually useful as a red flag or if it's too widespread for that

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The cultural pervasiveness and permissiveness for misogyny makes it an attractive recruitment vector for violent extremism. Reddit's rule against promoting hatred doesn't get enforced regularly even now against two blatant misogynist slurs. Misogyny is a blind spot, a salonfahige signal.

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Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The 2% of Reddit's users who produced 80% of the toxic / hateful / harassing / violent content 2015-2020 were universally misogynistic.

Some Guy* (@betterkevin.bsky.social):

I think I'm missing something. Doesn't the rate of misogyny also matter? If (wildly made up) 40% of users are misogynistic, then even though we know violent people are misogynistic, we can't use misogyny to predict violence.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

From a statistical standpoint, if 40% of your userbase is misogynistic & 8% of your content is violent — and you kick off (most of) the 40% that's misogynistic & the violent content drops 75% year over year —

That's strong evidence of causation.

Whether an individual will be fiolent, though —

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Simply because an individual is misogynist doesn't necessitate violent expressions and violent ideology in that individual.

Converting lonely, awkward men into violent actors, where they carry a narrative that justifies their violence to themselves – that's overwhelmingly achieved with misogyny.

Some Guy* (@betterkevin.bsky.social):

Agreed. But also completely irrelevant. We can't use a common behavior as a red flag.

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Colleen Morrissey (@colleenmoz.bsky.social):

The way misogyny is so common that it's not considered a red flag for mass violence even when it is literally one of the most reliable early indicators...

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Yep. You can't say "this guy was MGTOW and therefore will be violent", it's not an inevitability.

The misogynist groups just attract violent extremists and radicalise members into violent extremists.

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