The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project said it utilized a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain FBI documents that flag certain internet slang terms as “violent extremism.”
According to FOX News, the FBI documents include glossaries that flag these terms for “Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremism” or “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism.”
What are some of the terms that could get you flagged for ‘extremist activity’ on the web?
- “Incels”
- “Red Pill”
- “Chad”
- “Based”
- “LARPing”
FBI documents associate internet slang like ‘based’ and ‘red pill’ with ‘extremism’ https://t.co/L9i3MC9YSP pic.twitter.com/v4vT4eCv16
— New York Post (@nypost) April 10, 2023
Who else is red pilled, based and doesn’t care that the @FBI thinks we’re extremists? pic.twitter.com/wZfNFiRzc9
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 10, 2023
FOX News reported:
The FBI list for terms associated with “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism” (RMVE) has a mix of extreme terms and innocuous ones.
“Red Pill” also appears in this list, but with a different description: “In the context of RMVE ideology, taking the red pill or becoming ‘redpilled’ indicates the adoption of racist, anti-Semitic, or fascist beliefs.”
“Based” is defined by the FBI as a word used to “refer to someone who has been converted to racist ideology, or as a way of indicating ideological agreement.” In regular parlance, based is a context-specific word coined by rapper Lil B that can mean, as KnowYourMeme describes, anything ranging from “something that is ‘agreeable’ and ‘cool,’” to something “considered anti-woke.”
The list also includes the term “LARPing,” which was originally used to describe people engaged in live-action roleplay, often as characters in high-fantasy settings. In a political context, the term can be used for people with an impractical or improbable political vision, such as imagining a monarchist future for the United States.
The FBI glossary says the term is used to “deride individuals accused of not being as extreme, or in possession of skills or other valued characteristics they claim to have.”
How many violent criminals or mass shooters has the FBI had on its radar before they committed their crimes?
Instead of investigating legitimate threats, the agency is worried about internet slang that indicates Americans are becoming more aware of Deep State corruption.
Why would the FBI care if men and women are being “red-pilled” or becoming “based?”
Perhaps they don’t want the American public awake to their dirty tricks?
The FBI now associates the terms "based" and "red pill" with "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism."
Never forget that the entire government is weaponized against us.
— Lauren Witzke (@LaurenWitzkeDE) April 10, 2023
The New York Post provided further details:
Part of the document refers specifically to “incels,” or those “involuntary celibate,” whom the “threat overview” describes as possibly seeking to “commit violence in support of their beliefs that society unjustly denies them sexual or romantic attention, to which they believe they are entitled.”
The assessment notes, “While most incels do not engage in violence,” some have been involved in “at least five lethal attacks in the United States and Canada.”
Many of the terms mentioned in the FBI’s list of incel terminology are either widely used across the internet or innocuous in nature.
The one term in the glossary is “Red Pill,” which comes from the 1999 film “The Matrix” and has been used a metaphor for seeing hidden or politically incorrect truths about the modern world, particularly when it comes to politics or dating.
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