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You argue against things you disagree with, you don't suppress them. When you suppress them, you just turn them into mystery religions.

Also, incels don't need a manifesto to learn how to hate women. The reason they were looking for the manifesto is because they hate women.



Perhaps the issue with "the Internet enables self-learning" is that people just read the arguments they like and dismiss the ones they don't like; however perverse it is, there's some merit to an authority figure/your friends in a classroom saying "you're wrong" -- but then again, in the Taliban-ruled areas of the United States they teach that evolution is a lie.

I can see how a manifesto saying "the truth is, women are [bla bla bla], therefore [bla bla]" can make sense in a superficial level (and gives twats like Jordan Peterson an air of intelligence), and can be persuasive to incels.

Of course suppression isn't the answer either.




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