A professor and two students were stabbed during a gender studies class at the University of Waterloo in Canada on Wednesday, and one person is in custody, authorities said.

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    Not surprised, given the political climate of the university.

    The subreddit for Waterloo is kinda infamous rife with incel shit. It’s a tiny microcosm of the culture there, and I’m not surprised it boiled over.

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    Terrible. And while we don’t have enough details at this time to do anything but guess, I wonder if incel and anti-feminist rhetoric had an impact here. Gender studies as a subject is heavily loathed by those types, sometimes to the degree of wishing violence on them.

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    The hateful and violent far right is on the rise in Canada, and Pierre Poilievre is encouraging it.