Lonely, sexless straight men have become a larger force in the White nationalist movement.
That’s according to Ellee Reeve, author of the book “Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics.”
Reeve talked with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday to discuss her findings, saying straight men who struggle to find a romantic partner can be drawn to alt-right communities.
“That’s a big entryway into this,” she said. “A big entry point is, ‘Why won’t women be with me?’”
The so-called “new white nationalist movement” is highly influenced by “incel” culture, she said, referring to men who are involuntarily celibate.
“It means that feminism has doomed them to be virgins forever because in the natural order of things, less attractive women would marry them,” said Reeve. […]
I hope this book has more substance that this brief summary which is overly simplistic. These issues are much more complex than a small set of men unable to find partners. It would be nice to think we could dismiss the complexity of our problem set to this one factor but it is fantasy to do so.