One of the gunmen cited right-wing figure Candace Owens as his inspiration. Her reaction was “LOL!” and a laughing emoji, and to blame “The Left” for implying a connection between her and the shooting.
Lady, it isn’t about you - save your laughter for an occasion where laughter is appropriate.
How about “While I have no idea how my words could have inspired such an act, that’s not important right now. I join the people of New Zealand in mourning these senseless deaths.” How hard would that have been?
I doubt she finds death terrific, but no less troubling is that she finds it hard to process the magnitude of the tragedy. She’s indifferent, which in many regards is just as bad.
Jesus Christ…in New Zealand of all places? I’d never imagine something like this happening there. (Sadly I can imagine it quite easily in America - I mean, I don’t need to imagine it, since it’s already happened so many times.)
She’s a troll, she’s hated by white racists for insinuating herself into right-wing politics in the US, and the shooter was parroting racist memes in trolling her right back.
Since I don’t feel like doing the research, anyone want to chime in on NZ weapon-control laws and if they had any – good or bad – effect on this event?
Not sure gun control laws have much to do with this sort of random mass shooting, though. From what I understand, the guy who did this attack is Australian, which has tighter gun control laws than New Zealand according to CNN.
New Zealand can probably do more to regulate firearms, but nothing is going to stop the occasional nutter from doing something like this.
It’s times like this when I wonder what, if anything, should we be doing about ‘taking away the microphone’ from people who troll with hatred. I’m not a fan of restricting speech, particularly if it’s the government being the arbiter or censor, but I think there’s clearly a responsibility of companies like Google, Facebook, et al to do more to police this kind of shit.
In all fairness, though, it seems like much of this took place in seedy, underground chat rooms and web boards. Maybe it’s time to start shining the spotlight on companies that play host to these animals.
Which websites did he visit? Who owns them? Who hosts them?
It seems that Lauren Southern deleted her “The Great Replacement” video (Muslims are replacing Whites in the west, White-genocide, etc.) as the murderer’s alleged manifesto used the theory as its title.
To be fair, they blame everything on socialism. In 2021 they’ll absolutely for sure blame Trump (which at this point they will retroactively have always condemned as an obviously terrible, criminal person) on The Left. I have zero doubt of this.