Jack Peterson

Jack Peterson
Peterson, 2017
Born Kalerthon Demetro
(1998-11-08) November 8, 1998
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Residence Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality American
Occupation Activist
Known for Incel activist

Jack Peterson is an American activist and former spokesperson for the Incel community.

Biography

Peterson's legal name is Kalerthon Demetro, but he prefers the pseudonym Jack Peterson.[1] He was born in Chicago in 1998.[2]

Despite claiming to be incel, Peterson has stated that he has had a girlfriend in the past, yet claims it was not a productive relationship since he felt he was constantly scolded and berated, and was physically attacked by her.[1]

Peterson first stumbled upon the manosphere at the age of 11 on 4chan.[1] A psychiatrist has diagnosed him as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, but this has been disputed by other doctors[1]. He is a high school dropout.[1]

Career

Peterson is a former staff member and chat room administrator of Incels.me, which is the largest incel website on the internet,[3] a site he describes as more honest than other incel forums.[4]

He previously ran the "Incelcast", wherein he interviewed incels and discussed how they came to their position.[5][6] His podcast also discussed the hikikomori phenomenon in Japan and the likelihood of the same thing happening in the Western world.[1]

As part of their efforts to de-radicalize young male incels, he and others on his podcast offered several suggestions, including banning references to Elliot Rodger, permitting female incels to participate on predominantly male incel forums, banning misogynistic or hateful language by black pillers whom he views as a vocal minority,[5] addressing the discriminatory nature of lookism[7] and legalizing prostitution and assisted suicide.[8]

He has been the subject of television and phone interviews with the media to discuss incel topics.[9][10][11][12] Peterson was the only incel to be featured on Canadian national television in the aftermath of the Toronto terrorist van attack attack.[1]

He believes that involuntary celibacy is a social phenomenon rather than a movement and has described online communities as support groups for discussing depression and loneliness.[7] Peterson describes incels as commonly being males in their late teens who are shy.[5]

He has condemned the Toronto van attack and claimed that Alek Minassian is not representative of the incel community.[8] Peterson has compared the demonization of inceldom to the generalizations and subsequent xenophobic and Islamophobic sentiments faced by Muslims in the aftermath of Islamist violence.[1]

His demeanor has been described as pacifist.[13]

In May 2018, Peterson announced on his YouTube channel that he left the Incel community voluntarily by requesting a permanent ban on the forum "Incels.me".[14][15][16][17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Stadtmiller, Mandy (29 April 2018). "Sympathy for the 'Incel'". The Daily Beast.
  2. ↑ Peterson, Jack (May 2017). "Jack Peterson on Twitter". Twitter.
  3. ↑ Wilson, Jason (2018-04-25). "Toronto van attack: Facebook post may link suspect to misogynist 'incel' subculture". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  4. ↑ Yang, Jennifer; Gillis, Wendy (April 29, 2018). "Shadowy online subculture in spotlight after Toronto van attack". The Hamilton Spectator.
  5. 1 2 3 "'There's a lot of truth in this': Incel spokesperson defends movement praised by Alek Minassian". Globalnews.ca.
  6. ↑ Hodge, Mark (30 Apr 2018). "Revenge of the Losers". The Sun.
  7. 1 2 Mountford, J. B. "Topic Modeling The Red Pill." Social Sciences 7.3 (2018): 42.
  8. 1 2 Browne, Rachel; Subramaniam, Vanmala (April 25, 2018). "How the incel community is reckoning with the Toronto van attack". Vice.
  9. ↑ Yang, Jennifer; Gillis, Wendy (April 28, 2018). "Shadowy online subculture in spotlight after Toronto van attack". The Star.
  10. ↑ Silverman, Anna (11 May 2018). "Inside The Murky World Of The Male Celibates". Grazia.
  11. ↑ Wilcomes, Justin (27 Apr 2018). "An Inceler speaks to the media". The Shift with Drex.
  12. ↑ Valenti, Jessica (25 Jul 2018). "What Feminists Can Do For Boys". The New York Times.
  13. ↑ "What is incel? Examining the 'rebellion' praised by Toronto van attack suspect". Yoo News.
  14. ↑ Peterson, Jack (May 5, 2018). Why I'm Leaving Incels. YouTube.
  15. ↑ Griffin, Jonathan (12 May 2018). "BBC Trending: Inside the Dark World of 'incels'". BBC.
  16. ↑ Jeltsen, Melissa (7 Jun 2018). "The Unmaking Of An Incel". HuffPost.
  17. ↑ Ling, Justin (18 Jun 2018). "'Not as ironic as I imagined': the incels spokesman on why he is renouncing them". The Guardian.
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