So yes he has become a symbol but use a better one.
It’s a stretch to think that any of these people actually condone or encourage being a deranged incel that mails bombs to random professors or computer stores
I am not that confident, this is how spaces and people get radicalised. Like years back 4Chan was just edgy idiots making Nazi jokes sometimes to be shocking, but actual Nazis see that as acceptance and get stronger and bolder in their views. Then they say horrible things, fence sitters see it as an acceptable joke and it slightly normalises it in their mind. Eventually 8Chan exists and we know how that goes.
If you hold up murderers then you normalise redeeming them, and you signal you’re receptive to their methods and ideas to people who support them already. You also normalise viewing them positively in vulnerable or lost people. Some of which are literal children.
So yes he has become a symbol but use a better one.
I am not that confident, this is how spaces and people get radicalised. Like years back 4Chan was just edgy idiots making Nazi jokes sometimes to be shocking, but actual Nazis see that as acceptance and get stronger and bolder in their views. Then they say horrible things, fence sitters see it as an acceptable joke and it slightly normalises it in their mind. Eventually 8Chan exists and we know how that goes.
If you hold up murderers then you normalise redeeming them, and you signal you’re receptive to their methods and ideas to people who support them already. You also normalise viewing them positively in vulnerable or lost people. Some of which are literal children.