Christchurch has long attempted to shrug off its label as a racist city, one fueled in part by its latent skinhead culture. ![]() Yet Tarrant didn’t have to look at the other side of the world for white supremacism. ![]() In his manifesto, Tarrant himself said he “only really took inspiration from Knight Justiciar Breivik.” There are certainly parallels between the self-radicalization of Breivik, a man who increasingly isolated himself physically and emotionally, and the path taken by Tarrant. After all, the title of his manifesto, “The Great Replacement,” comes from the book by Renaud Camus, a text cited frequently by far-right politicians like Geert Wilders and the more elusive identitarian movement while visiting France, Tarrant wrote: “I found my emotions swinging between fuming rage and suffocating despair at the indignity of the invasion of France.” But then there is also the reference to Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik. For one writer, Tarrant was clearly inspired by French anti-immigrationist rhetoric. Already there has been speculation about what drove such an attack. ![]() On Friday, March 15th 2019, at 1:40pm, Brenton Tarrant walked into the first of two mosques in central Christchurch and began shooting indiscriminately, leading to the deaths of 50 people. “From where did you receive/research/develop your beliefs? The internet, of course.” -Brenton Tarrant ![]() Blog: Algorithmic Hate: Brenton Tarrant and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn
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