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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 13, 2026

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Teenaged male, terminally online, obsessed with anime

Didn't even have to get to the 2nd paragraph to know the pronouns. How unfortunate (the shooting, although having she/they or he/they pronouns is also deeply stupid).

the threat of incel-motivated mass violence is so relentlessly hyped up while trans-motivated violence is denied outright

To focus on "incel violence" over "trans violence" is stupid yes. Although I think both cases the causation is backwards.

Weird, mal-adjusted and outcast boys are generally the ones to do mass shootings. They are also very likely to be trans, incels, or both.

But the root cause is being a weird outcast, not being trans.

...the root cause is being a weird outcast....

So maybe we shouldn't cast out people for being weird then! ("Thou calledst me dog before thou hadst a cause. But since I am a dog, beware my fangs." -- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice)

Promote as many anti-bullying initiatives as you please, encourage young children to be more inclusive – in every society, there are going to be people who have a hard time fitting in, who don't get along with their peers, for whom social interaction is challenging. The question is what we do with these people. Simply announcing "we'll just make sure no one feels excluded!" is not a solution.

Your suggestion also sounds suspiciously like a threat. "You see what happens when you don't go out of your way to validate the heckin trans kids? Do you see what happens? Be a shame if it was to happen again..."

people who have a hard time fitting in, who don't get along with their peers, for whom social interaction is challenging.

And a society which tries to integrate them, to find a place where they can live well, even if it is not always successful, will get better results than one which continually signals to them that they are not wanted and that it would prefer that they quietly disappear.

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth." -- Igbo Proverb

Your suggestion also sounds suspiciously like a threat. "You see what happens when you don't go out of your way to validate the heckin trans kids? Do you see what happens? Be a shame if it was to happen again..."

It's not a threat, per se, so much as karma.

What goes around comes around, and if you are cruel to the least of these, whether for 'the greater good' or for your own convenience, sooner or later it will come back to bite you.

I am not advocating for such retaliation, merely pointing out that the most effective strategy for preventing it is to practise the same universal benevolence you ought to have been practising all along.

And a society which tries to integrate them, to find a place where they can live well, even if it is not always successful, will get better results than one which continually signals to them that they are not wanted and that it would prefer that they quietly disappear.

I find it interesting that this society of yours resides solely in your imagination: mass shootings have been observed in just about every society you care to mention. I wonder why that might be.

I am not advocating for such retaliation, merely pointing out that the most effective strategy for preventing it is to practise the same universal benevolence you ought to have been practising all along.

What is your evidence for your claim that this is the most effective strategy for preventing it?

Teenaged male, terminally online, obsessed with anime

Didn't even have to get to the 2nd paragraph to know the pronouns.

That seems a stretch. Surely there's still a massive contingent of old-fashioned weebs, many of whom aren't even left-wing - last week's thread had an extensive discussion of conflict between woke anime dub localizers and anti-woke anime fans! (Is your argument that these people are all a little older, and all the teenagers are very woke? That would be surprising.)

I'll admit part of it was just the context of this website.

But a post about a shooting by a terminally online man obsessed with anime?

The odds weren't bad for that guess lol

... yeah. You run into a lot of different outcomes there. Could probably do an interesting "What sort of Attack On Titan fan are you?" question, but I couldn't stand AoT, so can't do it myself. Even in pretty left-leaning woke-heavy places, the trans (and especially) nonbinary numbers are high, but they're not universal or even really a majority. If you're away from the explicitly woke ones, openly rather than merely obviously queer people are still not a majority.

I like the first 2.5 seasons of AoT. Season 4 was awful, not just because of where the story went, but because they decided to switch to weird rotoscoped 3D models instead of traditional animation, and the music was terrible too. But I hated the idea of genociding 80% of the world's population, and Zeke's sterilization idea, and just about everything from the Marleyans' perspective.

Could probably do an interesting "What sort of Attack On Titan fan are you?" question

brb, asking ChatGPT to photoshop Jesse Plemons from the Civil War meme into a neckbeard weeb

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