The details of the Christchurch massacre against hundreds of Muslims in two separate mosques are still unfolding, but as at least one of the terrorists had planned, their motives, immortalized on the Internet, are clear. The alt-right, disparate but dangerous, wants a race war.
The shooter left behind a manifesto ridden with a number of red herrings, inserting polarizing diversions to distract from the fundamental motivation of fear: the white replacement conspiracy theory, a zero-sum view of the world predicated on white racial resentment. Like all alt-right villainy and scum, these terrorists are raw agents of chaos, and ones whose words cannot be taken at face value.
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