Islamophobic shooting in Christchurch, NZ

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I know Christchurch mostly as the site of the Parker-Hulme murder case, a media circus from the 1950s that the early Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures (starring a very young Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey) dramatizes. This is obviously orders of magnitude worse, and further sinks the probably very skewed impression I have of the place.

To go sincerity mode for a moment, if any Muslim forumites want someone to talk to or vent at about this, I always read my PMs.

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Guardian liveblog here.

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I made the profound mistake of watching the terrorist's video. The most disturbing thing of the many disturbing things about it was that it's remarkable how similar it looks to those stupid video games these people play. I don't expect to have good dreams tonight.

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Given the Tree of Life shooter's Gab account and this scumbag's activities on 4chan/8chan, it really feels like law enforcement needs to pay more attention to the so-called "Dark web" to find these scumbags before they pull of an attack.

What a nightmare. Horrible.

4chan/8chan aren't even the dark web. They're easily accessible from search engines and most socially awkward men of a certain Millennial sub-generation (myself included) have distinct memories of using them extensively as teenagers (relatively well-adjusted people having, of course, outgrown them years and years ago). That's part of the problem.

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https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1106654601049239552?s=21

https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1106657393952415750?s=21

Basically doing exactly what the terrorist wanted.
Not exactly sending a very strong response.

I think the terrorist probably wanted more guns tbh.

He very specifically stated he chose guns because he wanted to create conflict over gun control.

His manifesto says at length that he wants a full-scale race war over gun control in the United States (which I think you and I can probably agree is a bizarre and fanciful notion; a race war in the United States wouldn't be over gun control and a civil war in the United States over gun control 1. isn't going to happen and 2. wouldn't be particularly racialized). Political consensus-building on gun control in New Zealand goes completely without mention. Don't be disingenuous.

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Giving into the desires of terrorists is weak.

Again, the manifesto says nothing one way or the other about making public opinion in New Zealand converge on gun control measures as one of the terrorist's goals. What it does talk a lot about is increasing the salience of gun control as a knee-jerk wedge issue in the US--in other words, exactly what you're contributing to in this thread.

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Kurz speaking a word of power (in the direction of his coalition partner FPÖ):

FPÖ should take a clear position

"I expect the FPÖ to take a clear stance and, if there are connections with the Identitarians, to intervene and separate them, any kind of intertwining with the Identitarians has to be cut. Looking the other way is not possible." stressed The Chancellor. "Right-wing radicals are no better than Islamist extremists, and both radical ideologies pose a threat to our country and have no place in our free and liberal society," Kurz said in the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten.

https://kurier.at/politik/inland/kurz-ruegt-fpoe-kein-umgang-mit-dieser-rechtsextremen-bewegung/400453402

I'm pleasantly surprised given Kurz's overall image and style.