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== Legacy == | == Legacy == | ||
Rodger is considered to be a hero by the [[incel]] movement. | |||
===Copycat attacks=== | ===Copycat attacks=== | ||
Approximately four years after the shooting, [[Alek Minassian]] killed 10 and injured 16 in a vehicular attack in Toronto, Ontario. Before the attack, he praised Rodger in a Facebook post, referring to him by his title of "Supreme Gentleman". While many suspected that the post was fake, it was later confirmed to be real in an interrogation video. According to Minassian, they had talked on the Internet before Rodger's massacre. | Approximately four years after the shooting, [[Alek Minassian]] killed 10 and injured 16 in a vehicular attack in Toronto, Ontario. Before the attack, he praised Rodger in a Facebook post, referring to him by his title of "Supreme Gentleman". While many suspected that the post was fake, it was later confirmed to be real in an interrogation video. According to Minassian, they had talked on the Internet before Rodger's massacre. | ||
Twenty-two-year-old [[Jake Davison]] killed five people and then himself in a mass shooting on August 12, 2021, in Plymouth, England. He had posted videos online in which he reportedly expressed misogynist and homophobic views, expressed hostility towards his mother and others, and likened himself to incels. He had also used incel forums on Reddit to express hateful views. | |||
===Mumkey Jones=== | ===Mumkey Jones=== | ||