Chapter 57: Christchurch

228     posted about . . . the only racial “group ‘discriminated against’ with impunity” Cindy Ma and Meghan Conroy, “‘Your Kids are Being Taught an Anti-White Curriculum’: Victimhood, Moral Panic, and the Mainstreaming of Racial Resentment on YouTube,” Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, September 8, 2022, www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/your-kids-are-being-taught-an-anti-white-curriculum/.

228     “no longer spoke about anti-whiteness through . . .”  Ma and Conroy, “‘Your Kids are Being Taught an Anti-White Curriculum’: Victimhood, Moral Panic, and the Mainstreaming of Racial Resentment on YouTube,” www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/your-kids-are-being-taught-an-anti-white-curriculum/.

228     “indicates that the idea had become normalized within . . .”  Ma and Conroy, “‘Your Kids are Being Taught an Anti-White Curriculum’: Victimhood, Moral Panic, and the Mainstreaming of Racial Resentment on YouTube,” www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/your-kids-are-being-taught-an-anti-white-curriculum/.

228     more than three hundred . . . propagating “disinformation and/or extremism”  Ma and Conroy, “‘Your Kids are Being Taught an Anti-White Curriculum’: Victimhood, Moral Panic, and the Mainstreaming of Racial Resentment on YouTube,” www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/your-kids-are-being-taught-an-anti-white-curriculum/.

228     “the critical race theory moral panic and . . .”  Ma and Conroy, “‘Your Kids are Being Taught an Anti-White Curriculum’: Victimhood, Moral Panic, and the Mainstreaming of Racial Resentment on YouTube,” www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/your-kids-are-being-taught-an-anti-white-curriculum/.

228     “Our findings point to a worrying trend . . .”  Ma and Conroy, “‘Your Kids are Being Taught an Anti-White Curriculum’: Victimhood, Moral Panic, and the Mainstreaming of Racial Resentment on YouTube,” www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/your-kids-are-being-taught-an-anti-white-curriculum/.

228     “Perceived white victimhood has resulted in . . .”  Ma and Conroy, “‘Your Kids are Being Taught an Anti-White Curriculum’: Victimhood, Moral Panic, and the Mainstreaming of Racial Resentment on YouTube,” www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/your-kids-are-being-taught-an-anti-white-curriculum/.

228     Armed . . . and wearing . . . Isaac Stanley-Becker et al., “Primary Suspect, One Alleged Accomplice Identified in Terrorist Attack That Killed 49 in New Zealand,” Washington Post, March 15, 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/15/shootings-reported-mosques-christchurch-new-zealand; and Joey Garrison, “‘‘Violent Terrorist’: Who Is the White Supremacist Suspected in New Zealand Mosque Shootings?” USA Today, March 15, 2019, updated March 21, 2019, www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/15/new-zealand-christchurch-mosque-shootings-who-brenton-tarrant/3172550002/.

228     began a Facebook livestream on . . . March 15, 2019  Stanley-Becker et al., “Primary Suspect, One Alleged Accomplice Identified in Terrorist Attack That Killed 49 in New Zealand”; and Gerry Doyle, “New Zealand Mosque Attacker’s Plan Began and Ended Online,” Reuters, March 15, 2019, www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-shootout-internet/new-zealand-mosque-attackers-plan-began-and-ended-online-idUSKCN1QW1MV/.

228     entered . . . moved. . . shooting and killing forty-four Muslims Praveen Menon, “New Zealand Mosque Shooter Given Life in Prison for ‘Wicked’ Crimes,” Reuters, August 27, 2020, www.reuters.com/article/world/new-zealand-mosque-shooter-given-life-in-prison-for-wicked-crimes-idUSKBN25N07V/.

228     departed . . . hopped in his car  Ko tō tātou kāinga tēnei: Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch masjidain on 15 March 2019, vol. 1, parts 1–3, December 8, 2020, christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/20148/ko-to-tatou-kainga-tenei-volume-1-v2.pdf, 44.

228–229 addressed his online audience . . . speeding to . . .  Ko tō tātou kāinga tēnei: Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attack on Christchurch masjidain on 15 March 2019, christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/20148/ko-to-tatou-kainga-tenei-volume-1-v2.pdf, 1:44.

229     murdered another seven Muslims  Menon, “New Zealand Mosque Shooter Given Life in Prison for ‘Wicked’ Crimes,” www.reuters.com/article/world/new-zealand-mosque-shooter-given-life-in-prison-for-wicked-crimes-idUSKBN25N07V/.

229     captured him . . . trip to a third mosque  Ko tō tātou kāinga tēnei, christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/20148/ko-to-tatou-kainga-tenei-volume-1-v2.pdf, 1:45.

229     Living off an inheritance . . . had traveled the world Max Walden, “New Zealand Mosque Attacks: Who Is Brenton Tarrant?” Al Jazeera, March 18, 2019, www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/18/new-zealand-mosque-attacks-who-is-brenton-tarrant.

229     Before visiting . . . dismissed . . . “of the invasion of France by nonwhites”  Brenton   Tarrant, “The Great Replacement,” manifesto, March 15, 2019.

229     at a shopping mall . . . “invaders”  Tarrant, “The Great Replacement.”

229     believed . . . ended the possibility of a democratic solution  Tarrant, “The Great Replacement.”

229     politicians and theorists demanded . . . “stop the boats”  Brenton Tarrant was born in 1990, and “stop the boats” entered the Australian political discourse in 2013. See David Fisher, “Who Is Mosque Gunman? The Making of a Mass Killer,” New Zealand Herald, March 25, 2020, www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchurch-mosque-shootings-who-is-brenton-tarrant-the-making-of-a-mass-killer/75LGZ2LSTZUNKHNIGFAIGWF7FM/; and Tiffanie Turnbull, “How Australia Wrote the ‘Stop the Boats Playbook,” BBC News, March 17, 2023, www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64898507.

229     migrated from Australia to the UK  Turnbull, “How Australia Wrote the ‘Stop the Boats Playbook,” www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64898507.

229     Thousands of migrants . . . to Australia from . . . like Sri Lanka and Indonesia  Turnbull, “How Australia Wrote the ‘Stop the Boats Playbook,” www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64898507.

229     “One Nation releases their policy to STOP THE BOATS!”  Pauline Hanson, Twitter, July 17, 2013, 7:44 p.m., x.com/PaulineHansonOz/status/357647020003045376, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/aypXF.

229     elect . . . to the Australian Senate . . . with three other candidates  Kurt Sengul, “Pauline Hanson Built a Political Career on White Victimhood and Brought Far-Right Rhetoric to the Mainstream,” The Conversation, June 21, 2020, theconversation.com/pauline-hanson-built-a-political-career-on-white-victimhood-and-brought-far-right-rhetoric-to-the-mainstream-134661.

229     had won a seat . . . in 1996 but . . . in 1998 “Senator Pauline Hanson,” Parliament of Australia, accessed March 4, 2025, www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=BK6.

229     represents Queensland “Senator Pauline Hanson,” www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=BK6. 

229     home state of New South Wales “Christchurch Mosque Attack: Brenton Tarrant Sentenced to Life without Parole,” BBC News, August 27, 2020, www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53919624.

229     lives about three hours north of . . . Grafton  Hanson lives in Beaudesert. Tarrant grew up in Grafton. “I’m an Aussie Fighter, Hanson Declares,” SBS News, December 16, 2014, www.sbs.com.au/news/article/im-an-aussie-fighter-hanson-declares/k8oxcm262; and Helen Regan and Sandi Sidhu, “Brenton Tarrant: From Gym Trainer to Murder Suspect,” CNN, March 17, 2019, www.cnn.com/2019/03/16/asia/new-zealand-suspect-brenton-tarrant-about-intl.

229     “In my first speech in 1996 . . .”  Pauline Hanson, first speech to the Senate, Hansard, Parliament of Australia, September 14, 2016, www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansards/16daad94-5c74-4641-a730-7f6d74312148/&sid=0140.

229     “Now we are in danger of being swamped by Muslims . . .”  Hanson, first speech to the Senate, www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansards/16daad94-5c74-4641-a730-7f6d74312148/&sid=0140.

230      posted and emailed out a seventy-four-page manifesto Ko tō tātou kāinga tēnei, christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/20148/ko-to-tatou-kainga-tenei-volume-1-v2.pdf, 1:13, 1:41, 1:42.

230      “large group of invaders, from a culture . . .”  Tarrant, “The Great Replacement."

230      “This crisis of mass immigration and sub-replacement fertility . . .”  Tarrant, “The Great Replacement."

230      “What do you want?”  Tarrant, “The Great Replacement."

230      “We must ensure the existence of our people, and . . .”  Tarrant, “The Great Replacement."

230      “In general, I support the Christchurch shooter and his manifesto”  Patrick Wood Crusius, “The Inconvenient Truth,” manifesto, August 3, 2019, 1.

230      “Brenton started my real research into . . .”  Payton Gendron, manifesto, May 12, 2022, 8.

230      condemned the Christchurch massacre  Joe Heim and James McAuley, “New Zealand Attacks Offer the Latest Evidence of a Web of Supremacist Extremism,” Washington Post, March 15, 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/new-zealand-suspect-inspired-by-far-right-french-intellectual-who-feared-nonwhite-immigration/2019/03/15/8c39fba4-6201-4a8d-99c6-aa42db53d6d3_story.html.

230      “that people” . . . “notice of the ethnic substitution . . .”  Renaud Camus quoted in Heim and McAuley, “New Zealand Attacks Offer the Latest Evidence of a Web of Supremacist Extremism,” www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/new-zealand-suspect-inspired-by-far-right-french-intellectual-who-feared-nonwhite-immigration/2019/03/15/8c39fba4-6201-4a8d-99c6-aa42db53d6d3_story.html.

230      hoped the “counterrevolt” . . . “demographic colonization” . . . “becomes stronger”  Camus quoted in Heim and McAuley, “New Zealand Attacks Offer the Latest Evidence of a Web of Supremacist Extremism,” www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/new-zealand-suspect-inspired-by-far-right-french-intellectual-who-feared-nonwhite-immigration/2019/03/15/8c39fba4-6201-4a8d-99c6-aa42db53d6d3_story.html.

230      “On the 15th March, our country changed forever . . .” Winston Peters, Twitter, March 21, 2019, 12:46 a.m., x.com/winstonpeters/status/1108590716010156033, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/qWg4p.

230      “sympathy to all those people . . .”  Geert Wilders quoted in “Wilders on New Zealand Mosque Attacks: ‘So Many Innocent People Murdered,’” WNL, March 15, 2019,wnl.tv/2019/03/15/wilders-over-aanslagen-nieuw-zeeland, via Google Translate.

230–231  “You can do nothing but distance yourself . . .”  Wilders quoted in “Wilders on New Zealand Attacks: ‘So Many Innocent People Murdered,’” wnl.tv/2019/03/15/wilders-over-aanslagen-nieuw-zeeland.

231      “horrible massacre”  Donald Trump, Twitter, March 15, 2019, 7:41AM, x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1106520743855251456, archived at archive.today, February 9, 2026 capture, archive.ph/wip/7DRAE; and Donald Trump quoted in Colby Itkowitz and John Wagner, “Trump Says White Nationalism Is Not a Rising Threat after New Zealand Attacks: ‘It’s a Small Group of People,’” Washington Post, March 15, 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-offers-us-assistance-after-horrible-massacre-in-new-zealand/2019/03/15/931833d2-4712-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html.

231      “I don’t, really” Trump quoted in Itkowitz and Wagner, “Trump Says White Nationalism Is Not a Rising Threat after New Zealand Attacks: ‘It’s a Small Group of People’” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-offers-us-assistance-after-horrible-massacre-in-new-zealand/2019/03/15/931833d2-4712-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html.

231      “This terrorist manifesto almost reads like . . .”  Amy Croffey, “Pauline Hanson Denies One Nation ‘Complicit’ in Christchurch Massacre," Sydney Morning Herald, video, March 18, 2019, www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/pauline-hanson-denies-one-nation-complicit-in-christchurch-massacre-20190318-p5151k.html, 0:01–0:12.

231      “Why [do] we have these terrorist attacks in this country?”  Croffey, “Pauline Hanson Denies One Nation ‘Complicit’ in Christchurch Massacre,” www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/pauline-hanson-denies-one-nation-complicit-in-christchurch-massacre-20190318-p5151k.html, 0:45–0:48.

231      “debate the issues”  Croffey, “Pauline Hanson Denies One Nation ‘Complicit’ in Christchurch Massacre,” www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/pauline-hanson-denies-one-nation-complicit-in-christchurch-massacre-20190318-p5151k.html, 0:41–0:45.

231      “Most of the terrorist attacks are [carried out by] . . .”  Croffey, “Pauline Hanson Denies One Nation ‘Complicit’ in Christchurch Massacre,” www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/pauline-hanson-denies-one-nation-complicit-in-christchurch-massacre-20190318-p5151k.html, 0:54–1:07. The transcription provided in this source was consulted in addition to the video for this quote.

231      “That’s a load of rubbish”  Croffey, “Pauline Hanson Denies One Nation ‘Complicit’ in Christchurch Massacre,” www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/pauline-hanson-denies-one-nation-complicit-in-christchurch-massacre-20190318-p5151k.html, 1:10–1:14.

231      have lost . . . in England, Sweden, and France  Croffey, “Pauline Hanson Denies One Nation ‘Complicit’ in Christchurch Massacre,” www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/pauline-hanson-denies-one-nation-complicit-in-christchurch-massacre-20190318-p5151k.html, 1:39–1:54.