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We have studied the Montreal shooter's manifesto, discussed it in a community of experts, and read the coverage and reactions. This article is a good start. Other commentary has focused on the wrong parts and covered up violence towards women. So let's talk. 🧵 montrealgazette.com/news/local-c...

montrealgazette.comManifesto laden with incel ideology linked to Côte-des-Neiges shootingsA 104-page document advocates for use of terror in creating "new order."

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It is fair to characterize the shooter as an incel. He writes that women only being attracted to “favoured men” based largely on height and face shape is a fixed biological reality. He says that “common men” can never expect to be treated well by women.

He says that women will only use "common men," and that women having the economic and social freedom to choose their partners is the problem. This is incel ideology. He blames this situation on capitalism, using communist ideas, and has authoritarian solutions.

The shooter says that capitalists want women in the workforce and that under a capitalist culture there has been feminism, women’s rights, and sexual degeneracy, which need to be corrected, and that “common men” have been numbed to the unfair situation with things like drugs and pornography.

While the manifesto has the hallmarks of a mixed and unstable authoritarian ideology, it very clearly begins and ends with misogyny and a feeling of entitlement towards women that he explains (and in his mind solves) with authoritarian and communist ideas.