Mass shootings at mosques in New Zealand

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?

Owens reacted like that? Yesterday must been a day that ends with the letter Y.

Pretty hard to do if deep down she actually things the deaths are terriffic. Which sounds like she might.

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.

Condolences pouring in from around the world. Have not seen anything from Trump yet. Will he say that some shooters at mosques are very good people?

She’s a shameless grifter, startlingly transparent in her case. She would hold hands in harmony with Muslims if that’s where the money led her.

Remember when Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern went on their Australia & New Zealand pro-white, anti-Muslim/diversity tour a few months ago? This is the same people who publish daily hours long rants on their youtube channels questioning the validity of non-whites existing in the west (or in Southern’s case, traveling to the Europe to enable the drowning of African Migrants).

When will my country (Canada) be properly labeled as an exporter of extremism/terrorism?

There was a tweet at 7:41. Also noted there: somebody deleted that tweet about “tough people”.

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.)

Latest: Iranian minister says bigotry led to attack.

Ya think? :smack:

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.

It took us a hell of a long time to deal with Ernst Zundel and we never properly dealt with Omar Khadr’s family.

We have provincial politicians who said Islamophobia doesn’t exist on the anniversary of a mass murder at a mosque.

Within the past month the federal leader of the opposition spoke to a rally of racists and neo-nazis on Parliament Hill.

But at least nobody has heard from the Neo-Nazi from Montreal ever since there was a warrant issued for his arrest.

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?

Here is CNN’s take, FWIW:

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?

Fox & Friends blames the shootings on socialism.

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.

Because of course they do.

Blaming others for white supremacist right wing terrorism is pretty much standard for Trump & Fox & Friends.

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.

The probability that he actually wrote that tweet himself is vanishingly small IMHO.