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Someone really needs to do a write up looking at all the times race has altered the public discourse.

Theres a consistent theme here in portraying culprits who are white as victims or sympathetic. Whether its contrasting breivik to jihadists, or incels to african american victims of police shootings or white nationalists to BLM protesters.

I think a bit more intellectual honesty might have a dramatic effect on the level of social engagement.

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I find that various groups will do exactly as you say in various ways. In my particular surroundings, for example, there are some who do as you describe, but most actually do the opposite: the incels/alt-right/sad nerds are openly mocked, and the jihadist is purely a victim of circumstance.

Personally I'd like it if we could just empathize with all of these 'culprits' and actually do something about the situation, even if just for one of these groups, rather than argue about who deserves more empathy or sympathy.

You have a valid point, but to be fair, this article is about the broader movement of so-called incels.

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