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Welcome back to the show.
Right now, the party that voted over 50 times
to weaken mental health care is suddenly
very concerned about mental health care.
Not like concerned in the sense of funding it or doing
anything about it, but concerned enough
to use it as a distraction.
A sicko like this guy-- he was a sick guy.
A lunatic kid gone crazy.
The poster child for a mentally-deranged individual.
A deranged madman.
This insane monster.
This individual was nuts.
If we keep screaming that he's crazy,
everyone will forget that he did this with a gun
that no one should ever have in the first place.
Now look--
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--we all know how I feel about guns.
I hate them, and I want to melt them down into jewelry
for transgender vegans.
And I am all for more funding for mental health, especially
for my writers, every last one of whom has
seasonal affective disorder.
Guys, please get up.
I-- I promise I'll introduce you to John Oliver one day.
But most mass murderers aren't mentally ill.
Only about 22% of them are.
That means the other 78% are just hateful assholes.
And yes, Nikolas Cruz was mentally
ill, but entirely separate from that,
he was also a violent bigot.
We have no reason to think his mental health was
more to blame for what he did.
REPORTER: The gunman wrote things like this.
"I hate Jews, expletives, immigrants."
"Shoot them in the back of the head."
"I think I am going to kill people."
REPORTER: The Associated Press reports
one student says Cruz was abusive to his ex-girlfriend.
REPORTER: The shooter also posted pictures on Instagram,
including this one, which shows him wearing
Make America Great Again hat.
Hey, Instagram made me blur my luxurious nipples,
and he can put that shit up there?
Nikolas Cruz wasn't the only mass shooter
to hold racist views.
In fact, the Southern Poverty Law Center
has developed a profile for what they call alt-right killers.
Young, white men characterized by their indoctrination
into alt-right ideology and their appreciation
of "Rick and Morty" on a level that you couldn't possibly get.
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So far, the SPLC has identified 13
alt-right killers who have murdered
or injured over 100 people.
This baker's dozen of nightmares includes
Dylann Roof, Elliot Rodger, and Charlottesville
killer James Alex Fields.
But where are these young, angry, white men
becoming radicalized?
The same place young, white women are learning the latest
eyebrow trend, fire brows--
the internet.
These people are basically white ISIS,
except more effective.
That's right.
The only thing that white supremacists
are actually better at than brown people is terrorism--
and wearing shorts with the most pockets.
But I am not saying that every young man who gets red pilled
is being radicalized.
Oh wait, no.
Yes, I am.
Because that is what being Red Pilled means.
What does it mean to swallow the Red Pill?
To swallow the Red Pill is to accept that everything you've
been told about society, about gender, race,
politics is a lie.
When it comes to online radicalization,
Red Pillers don't always start off
wanting to burn down the world.
Maybe they're just looking for dating tips.
A search for dating advice can spiral
into political radicalization.
Was it just that you felt lonely or misunderstood?
You can start to embody those more radical ideas based
on the initial idea that men are actually the ones that are
being mistreated in society.
So once you start from that basis, it's really easy for it
to snowball.
Snowball is actually the perfect name
for what happens when a bunch of sensitive snowflakes
terrified of women find a safe space to get revenge.
Many of these communities are of self-labeled incels,
short for involuntarily celibate.
I mean, sure, OK, I mean, I call myself a bicamifa, short for,
big "Call the Midwife" fan, which is really
my favorite online community.
Believe it or not, incels have a lot
to say about women, who they call roasties, which I guess
is a slur about how cis women's genitals look like roast beef.
Well, joke's on them because my vagina
is actually a fully-functioning gelato shop.
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It's way too cold in there, and everyone tells me
that ones in Italy are better.
Alt-right mass killers aren't isolated.
They grow out of online communities
where people idolize Santa Barbara killer Elliot Rodger,
fill message board after message board
with praise for school shootings,
and Photoshop Dylann Roof's haircut onto their avatars.
To be clear, these are people who don't
know why they're celibate.
Look, these kinds of online communities
are where Nikolas Cruz, Elliot Rodger, and a lot
of mass shooters were made.
Isn't it fun to imagine a glorious world where we take
that threat as seriously as we take
Muslim refugees and aggressively-peaceful black
people?
Before an alt-right shooter starts mass shooting,
he's just an angry white man who hates
women and people of color.
And being angry and hateful is not a mental illness.
In fact, some days, it feels like it's
as American as apple pie.
These people lost their lives to the alt-right.
If we want to prevent more deaths,
we have to not just treat mental illness, but fight hate.
Therapists can't cure hundreds of years
of misogyny and racism, and we shouldn't ask them to.
They have their hands full convincing me that not everyone
at my birthday party hated me.
Maybe they just came because they love cake.
Organizations like Life After Hate
can help de-radicalize bitter, white men
and dismantle hate movements.
I mean, at least I hope they can, since Trump slashed
the hell out of their funding.
So you know what?
In the meantime, let's just do whatever the fuck Emma
and her friends tell us to do.
We'll be right back.
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