Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

Multiple mosques attacked in Christchurch NZ.

more than one? all i can find is news about this one so far:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47578798

:(

https://apnews.com/ea1a8d5dcc2746fd95e7b5cb0e509949?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

shooting at another mosque

Filmed and broadcast live on Facebook.

not that it needs to be said but: don't anyone link to any of that garbage plz

4channer

Here’s the manifesto.

The #Christchurch shooting was streamed on Facebook, with a manifesto posted on 8chan. This is truly the darkest timeline pic.twitter.com/MgPVXn8U5r

— Steven Asarch (@IAmAsarch) March 15, 2019

My best friend is in chch, currently in lock down at her job

All mosques in the country have been asked to go into lock down

Chch has a long history of white nationalist groups so it’s unsurprising that this kind of thing would happen there, over any other city in nz

3 men, 1 woman arrested

At least one bomb found within 3 km of one of the mosques

4 crime scenes under investigation

Fuck scott Morrison and his empty platitudes. The first terrorist they arrested after the shooting is a fucking Australian.

Fucking Twitter will no longer let me report tweets sharing the terrorist’s footage

I'm in Chch, currently in lockdown in a hospital building about 5 minutes from Hagley Park. Nothing really to add but might be able to answer questions if anyone has any.

40 people confirmed dead

Reports that the entire Bangladesh cricket team were at one of the mosques but got out safely.

This is all just horrific. I've had a sense, for a while, that the threat of far right terrorism just hasn't been taken as seriously by authorities. Time for that to change.

First time i can recall seeing so many official news places just come right out and say 'terrorist' and 'terror attack' instead of just 'gunman'.

horrific

Chch has a long history of white nationalist groups so it’s unsurprising that this kind of thing would happen there, over any other city in nz

I'm assuming this angle is going to be covered in the next few days, because it's not getting mentioned at the moment.

I’ll be interested to see if anything at all is mentioned about that - the shooter is Australian so I think that’s the angle the media will focus on. Australia is pretty fucking racist and their politicians have been stirring the pot with a lot of anti immigrant and anti refugee bullshit.

The south island of nz (where chch is located) is much much whiter than the north island.

49 dead now.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-02-2019/will-the-far-right-movement-rise-in-new-zealand/

What a fucking nightmare. Fuck the terrorists, and fuck all those who abetted the hatred.

And a special fuck you to the French commenter in Le Monde who is 'mildly' disgusted to discover that there are mosques in a city called 'Christchurch' and who admits that he's struggling to find compassion in his heart, no matter how un-Christian that might be. Fuck the alt-right trolls who are actively minimizing this event, just like they did after the mosque shooting in Quebec city.

Right now I’m for rounding up alt-right fucksticks and sending them to re-education camps. We can start with your man from Le Monde there.

have youtube banned Tommy Robinson yet?

Devastating, but no one can claim to be surprised by this happening. My worry right now is that irresponsible reporting will direct people to the places this rhetoric is posted and also that there will be more copycat incidents like this soon. Just the most awful thing to wake up to.

49 people ffs and the sick bastards live-streamed it.

This might just be one of those social media stats but apparently there were 47 homicides in New Zealand over the whole of 2017?

Perhaps this might finally bring some reality to a debate that's been facile, reckless and entirely divorced from a lot of people's lived experience. But I wouldn't bet on it.

absolutely sick over this, just appalling

this has to be - must be - the turning point for reporting of far-right terror and the role places like 4chan, as well as the media itself, have played in radicalising people

there needs to be a ruthless crackdown on hate-preachers, even if they get driven to the dark net it will reduce their exposure. I couldn't gaf about spurious freedom of speech arguments at this point.

xp it won’t be. And there are plenty of people out there mainstreaming slightly toned down ideas of this in broadsheets that are responsible too. Plenty of them crying crocodile tears today.

Someone took a screenshot of the top comments on Fox News and posted it to reddit:

https://i.redd.it/gui75z25n7m21.png

This is the reality.

48 homicides in 2017. The rate has been plummeting lately, to under half what it was 30 years ago.

DailyBeast quoting shooter: "Memes have done more for the ethno-nationalist movement than any manifesto"

Just feel nauseous. I'm not on any forums where this stuff wouldn't be dogpiled, but I spent an evening 6+ years ago aghast at the casual racism on 4chan.

At a bare minimum, the Japanese owners of 8chan and 4chan should be pressured to shut the sites down. It will just force these miscreants to other venues, but anything to make their self-programming more difficult.

Just fuck

After the devastating attacks on mosques in Christchurch today, this is Queensland Senator Fraser Anning's response #auspol pic.twitter.com/eLKzIXjBcQ

— Felicity Caldwell (@fel_caldwell) March 15, 2019

Straight out of the Marine Le Pen/Geert Wilders/Tommy Robinson, etc. playbook. Fuck that guy.

if he is still senator this time tomorrow then there's no hope really, is there

Sounds like he's a loon who only got in by default:

For context for anyone outside Australia, Fraser Anning received just 19 votes. He only got a seat in the Senate after One Nation's Malcolm Roberts was disqualified. Anning was widely condemned for his "final solution" speech last year. https://t.co/O19h5bn4Es

— Felicity Caldwell (@fel_caldwell) March 15, 2019

Fuck that Queensland nazi with a rusty fork.

this nazi shitbag is merely the most cartoonish avatar of australian political culture

Also I know this goes without saying but this is almost perfectly-designed propaganda for Islamist terror organisations, especially given this took place in a country as seemingly 'safe' as New Zealand.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/zealand-mosques-attack-suspect-praised-trump-manifesto-190315100143150.html

Hardly surprising. The full quote is apparently

Were/are you a supporter of Donald Trump?

As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure. As a policy maker and leader? Dear god no.

Media: be careful with the NZ shooter's apparent manifesto. It's thick with irony and meta-text and very easy to misinterpret if you're not steeped in this stuff all the time (and even if you are).

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) March 15, 2019

Seriously, this entire thing is a minefield. I am Very Online and I don't feel 100% certain about what's genuine and what's just trolling/posting/media-baiting. Please be careful.

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) March 15, 2019

... he also praised Brexit.

also i wonder how the maori feel about a white guy from australia declaring natural rights or whatever the fuck the 8chan types call their garbage ideology

xp

yeah the irony shitposting angle makes it tough to sort out what's trolling and what isn't, though the "invader" language seems to be pretty consistent

shame they took him alive

message from Māori leaders to Muslims in Aotearoa (via @Asians4Tino on FB) #Christchurchshooting
"We know this suffering, this extremism born of racial supremacy, this theft of identity ... Our deepest sympathy and love to your whanau and community." pic.twitter.com/C1K0RABzBo

— Jinghua Qian (@qianjinghua) March 15, 2019

The “irony shitposting” angle of this is fucking nauseating. This came out of the same trash subcultures that youtube profits enormously from.

And that you'll be pipelined straight into if you watch anything political ever.

The "irony shitposting" angle is part of the terrorism. It's designed to create political chaos.