New Zealand and White Nationalists

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[vientomas]

"Churches are opening their doors after mosques were told to close for security issues in the wake of the Christchurch, New Zealand, terrorist attacks. Mosques are receiving messages of solidarity and flowers. A fundraiser for the victims is nearing $400,000. And a UK-based national forum for Christian-Muslim engagement is calling on Christians to go along to Friday prayers at their local mosques -- a call the archbishop of Canterbury endorsed.

These are only a few examples of how people and institutions are showing solidarity and offering help to Muslim communities all over the world after Friday's shooting attacks on two Christchurch mosques that killed at least 49 people and seriously injured 20 others."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/15/asia/christchurch-world-helping-muslim-community-trnd/index.html

Not tolerant conservative Matty.

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Those who made light of violence—Trump—and demonized Muslims—bear some responsibility for this. Stirring up the crazy fringe by dehumanizing Muslims. They must be proud.

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[MalibuGuru]

from Gary Bauer's Daily Report:

As of now, we don't know much about the man who attacked the New Zealand mosques, Brenton Tarrant. He left behind a lengthy manifesto, which is being analyzed.
But we know this much:

Tarrant was clearly a racist, and claimed to be inspired by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik.

He was not a conservative. Tarrant wrote, "Conservatism is dead. Thank god. Now let us bury it and move on to something of worth."

Nor was he a fan of Donald Trump, writing, "As a policy maker and leader? Dear god no."

According to one report, Tarrant labeled himself an "eco-fascist" after having "previously identified as a communist, an anarchist and a libertarian." Would it be fair to blame someone who wants a clean environment for the attack?

https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/christchurch-shooter-s-manifesto-reveals-an-obsession-with-white-supremacy-over-muslims-20190315-p514ko.html?fbclid=IwAR0SyyNWh06HMhC_hudpBvGLJkL_mkxMFYOVbnKtLE25vEOq9UyV0FrVuys

Last October, the New Zealand shooter posted:

“Hello everyone my name is Brenton Tarrant and I’m visiting Pakistan for the first time. Pakistan is an incredible place filled with the most earnest, kindhearted & hospitable people in the world.”

Wait a minute. Pakistan? I thought this guy was a white supremacist? See? ALL LIES. Another Deep State patsy.

[vientomas]

Perhaps worst of all, the forum posts, the manifesto, and even the shooting itself might not have been carried out with the purpose that a literal read of their contents suggests. On first blush, it seems impossible to deny that this terrorist act was motivated by white-supremacist hatred, an animosity that authorities like the FBI expert and the Facebook officials would want to snuff out before it spreads. But 8chan is notorious for an ironic, above-it-all approach to all of its perversities, a squalor amplified by the anonymity intrinsic to the service. Here, where users post “for the lulz,” or just to get a rise out of those who aren’t in the know, the ideology embraces chaos before it does zealotry. But the internet separates images from context and action from intention, and then it spreads those messages quickly among billions of people scattered all around the globe.

That structure makes it impossible to even know what individuals like Tarrant “really mean” by their words and actions. As it spreads, social-media content neuters earnest purpose entirely, putting it on the same level as anarchic randomness. What a message means collapses into how it gets used and interpreted. For 8chan trolls, any ideology might be as good as any other, so long as it produces chaos. No one can find safe harbor from this upheaval. Even here, I am forced to tiptoe around the question of what truly motivated Tarrant and his apparent accomplices. In the process, I risk playing into the hands of conspiracy theorists and trollish contrapuntists on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, and all the rest, underplaying white-supremacist violence by casting it as an epiphenomenon of disgruntled internet culture. There is no winning at this game.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/how-terrorism-new-zealand-spread-social-media/585040/

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