“Elliot Rodger’s California shooting spree last weekend was at first, for many, a seemingly familiar episode. Disaffected American youth, with access to almost unlimited firepower, goes on indiscriminate rampage, lashing out against the world in general. It’s a script we think we know. What changed my view was learning about Rodger’s YouTube videos and message board postings, in which he expressed, at length, his anger at women, his frustration at life as an “incel” (involuntary celibate”) and feelings of being oppressed, as a man, by feminism.
Rodger was apparently a men’s rights activist (MRA, in web parlance). This was something I’d been dimly aware of, as a sort of joke, but it thrives online, as do many other gender and sexual politics movements that are likely to grow in the coming years.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/31/was-youtube-right-to-take-down-elliot-rodgers-video/