As you may know there have been a variety of background for mass shooters.
A woman shot up google headquarters when youtube demonetized her videos:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/04/nasim-najafi-aghdam-youtube-shooting-demonetisation-payments-father
A trans person shot up their school:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-shooting/transgender-teen-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-deadly-colorado-school-shooting-idUSKCN24Q00D
And there's so many mass shootings in gangland in chicago you can't even list them all out.
But the press likes to push only the ones that meet their man-hating narrative - when the shooter is a white man - like recently:
https://archive.ph/hSkPM
Apparently this is his reddit post history:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210813174435/https://old.reddit.com/user/Jake3572
**Of the last 24 posts he made - 12 of them were to one of reddits protected man-bashing hate subs - **IncelsInAction.
The sub description of itself:
This sub is for mocking the antics of anyone who identifies themselves as "incel." This is a term popularised on Reddit and 4chan meaning "involuntarily celibate" i.e. men who can't get laid. Some of them get really really mad about it, and here are their stories...
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Incels who comment in here can expect to be relentlessly mocked by this community. If you don't like it, don't post here.
Did reddit's protection of it's anti-male subs contribute to this shooting?
It seems a lot more plausible than the banned "men going their own way" sub.
Not at all. They would not have created their entire sad movement if this was not what they believed. Besides, I don't think that men who don't get laid are worthless. The monks of the middle ages were pretty damn great. But what they were not doing is obsessing 24/7 over not having sex, like incels do.
Are you sure?
For mgtwo, back in the day, yes.
In japan there's a similar concept called "herbivore men".
In china there's something called "lying flat" that's primarily about work but includes not getting married and not having kids.
Nichola Tesla was apparently a celibate bachelor as well.
There haven't been that many incel shooters - feminist politicians really really wanted their to be so they could repeat 1 thing obsessively over and over - but they've had real trouble finding people.
But of the few, this is the 2nd that we know went online and got mocked for being incel, right before he went on a shooting spree. If reddit's goal was actually banning hate subs - rather than just doing man-hating - you'd see the anti-incel sub banned. I don't see that is has any positive purpose.