A newly exposed section of the FBI domestic terrorism reference guide suggests that the use of the internet slang words "red-pilled" and "based," among others, might be suggestive of a user's proclivity for or involvement in racist, involuntary-celibate, and/or fascistic extremism.
The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project recently obtained an excerpt from the FBI's guide on domestic terrorism that deals with both "Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists" and "Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremists."
Inside this section are glossaries of terms allegedly used by criminal elements in these supposed groups.
The following are some of the "key terms" incels are wont to use, according to the FBI:
The following are some of the "key terms" RMVEs are wont to use, according to the FBI:
Whereas some terms and phrases in the FBI's glossaries, such as "Blood and Soil," have an undeniable historical link to identitarian and nationalist socialist movements, the terms "red pill," "Chad," "LARPing," and "based" are used widely and innocuously online.
According to Know Your Meme, "Chad" is a "universally understood term online," optimally employed when referring to a person with a carefree attitude, "particularly if they're doing something particularly badass."
USA Today noted that "these days, a Chad would be a hyper-masculine and overtly sexual young man."
Caleb Madison indicated in the Atlantic that "Red Pill" is a cultural artifact from "The Matrix," wherein the character Morpheus offers the protagonist, Neo, a choice: "You take the blue pill ... the story ends — you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
Employed in everyday speech, to take the red pill or to be passively "red-pilled" is to ultimately realize that one was previously wrong or in the dark about about some consequential fact/reality.
How-To Geek indicated that "based" is similarly far from being a word singularly used by rabid identitarians and closeted fascists: "In Internet slang, a 'based' person or opinion is one that is confident, free-thinking, and not influenced by the opinion of others."
"Based, as a general slang word, originated from the 1980s recreational drug culture. It was used to describe someone who used crack cocaine and is derived from freebasing, a specific method of taking the drug. Someone who was 'Based' or a 'Basehead' was a person addicted to crack," continued the definition.
In addition to associating common internet slang with extremists, the FBI has also raised the alarm about Roman Catholic orthodoxy.
TheBlaze previously reported that in January, the FBI's Richmond field office published a document titled, "Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities."
Despite the Catholic Church spanning the globe, condemning slavery nearly a century before Columbus' discovery of America, and emphatically denouncing racism, the FBI reportedly claimed that it had "increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical traditionalist Catholic ideology."
If it exists, then the FBI's glossary of supposedly extremist Catholic terms and phrases has yet to be publicized.
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