On June 17 , 2019 , Bryan Isaack Clyde began what was intended to be a mass shooting at the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse in Dallas , Texas , but was shot and fatally wounded by officers from the Federal Protective Service before injuring anyone . Clyde had shared incel memes on his social media accounts , along with other posts referencing right-wing beliefs and conspiracy theories . Following the incident , the Joint Base Andrews military base briefed its personnel on incels , with a spokesman describing them as " a very real threat to military members and civilians . " Incel communities have been widely criticized in the media and by researchers as violent , misogynist , and extremist . Keegan Hankes , a senior research analyst working for the Southern Poverty Law Center , has cautioned that exposure to violent content on incel forums " play s a very large role " in the radicalization of incels , and describes violent posts on the forums as " more ... than I 'm used to seeing on even white supremacist sites " . Journalist David Futrelle has described incel communities as " violently misogynistic " , and is among critics who attribute worsening violent rhetoric on incel forums to the growth of the alt-right and white supremacy , and the overlap between incel communities and online hate groups . Senior research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue ( ISD ) , Amarnath Amarasingam , has criticized some incel communities where calls for violence are commonplace , saying " under the right set of psychological and personal circumstances , these kinds of forums can be dangerous and push people into violence " . Another researcher at the ISD , Jacob Davey , compared the radicalization of incels in incel forums to teenagers being urged to go to extreme measures on online forums that promote anorexia and other eating disorders and to online campaigns convincing people to join ISIL . Speaking about incels ' feelings of entitlement to sex , Davey said the attitude " can go as far as the justification of rape " . Journalist Zack Beauchamp has expressed concern about other types of harm inflicted by incels that may be lost in the attention paid specifically to mass violence ; he points to forum posts in which users brag about yelling at , catfishing , and sexually assaulting women . University of Portsmouth lecturer Lisa Sugiura has described incel forums as a " networked misogyny " , and urged the posts in such forums be taken seriously not only in the context of hate speech but also as a form of grooming that could radicalize " impressionable and vulnerable disillusioned young men " . Sociological research on incel communities has analyzed them as a hybrid masculinity , in which privileged men distance themselves from hegemonic masculinity while simultaneously reproducing it
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