Recent documents released Monday warned that common Internet jargon is associated by the FBI with “violent extremism.”
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project said it used a Freedom of Information Act request to release FBI documents that contain glossaries showing that common internet slang was labeled as an indication of “involuntary celibacy of violent extremism” or “racial or ethnic motivated violent extremism.”
A part of the document specifically refers to “incels” or “involuntary celibates” whom the “threats review” describes as possibly in search of to “commit violence to support their beliefs that society is unfairly denying them the sexual or romantic attention they imagine they’ve right to that.”
The assessment noted, “While most incels don’t engage in violence,” some have been involved in “not less than five deadly attacks in the US and Canada.”
Lots of the terms listed within the FBI’s list of incel terminology are either commonly used on the Internet or inherently harmless.
The one term within the glossary is “Red Pill”, which comes from the 1999 movie The Matrix and was used as a metaphor to identify hidden or politically incorrect truths concerning the modern world, especially in the case of politics or dating.
The FBI’s Key Terms list defines it as “the assumption shared by many online communities that society is corrupt and that the believer is a victim of that corruption.”
Lots of the terms listed are focused on self-improvement or struggling to settle accounts with the trendy dating market.
The Glossary defines the term “Chad” as “a race specific term used to explain an idealized version of a person who may be very successful in attracting the sexual and romantic attention of girls”, because it was later noted, “Incels compete unsuccessfully with Chads for attention.” “.
The term “Looksmaxxing” was also on the list, which the document defines as “a means of self-improvement with the intention of becoming more attractive”.
There are various terms associated with self-pity slightly than violence, akin to saying “It’s over” to convey the “hopelessness of being an incel” or referring to “heightcel” or “baldcel” to define people of short stature or bald, respectively.
The FBI’s list of terms related to “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism” (RMVE) accommodates a combination of utmost and harmless terms.
The “Red Pill” also appears on this list, but with a special description: “Within the context of RMVE’s ideology, taking the red pill or being a “Red Pill” means embracing racist, anti-Semitic or fascist beliefs.”
“Based on” is defined by the FBI as a word used to discuss with “someone who has been converted to a racist ideology or as a method to indicate ideological assent.” In common parlance, “based” is a context-specific word coined by rapper Lil B that may mean, as KnowYourMeme describes, anything from “something that is ‘nice’ and ‘cool’ to something ‘considered anti-awakening'” .
The list also includes the term “LARPing”, which was originally used to explain those involved in live-action role-playing, often as characters in high-fantasy settings.
In a political context, the term could be used to discuss with those with an impractical or implausible political vision, akin to imagining a monarchist future for the US.
The FBI Glossary says the term is used to “ridicule individuals accused of not being as extreme or lacking the abilities or other useful qualities they claim to have.”