Analysis | The racist theory that links terrorism in New Zealand to the Trump presidency

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Analysis: The racist theory that links terrorism in New Zealand to the Trump presidency

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When Trump asked New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern how he could help, she reportedly suggested he offer his “sympathy and love for all Muslim communities.” But the U.S. president spent the weekend on Twitter once more decrying immigrant “invaders” and defending a Fox News host who had just been suspended for Islamophobic remarks. At no point did he communicate any wider empathy for Muslims around the world or explicitly condemn white supremacy.

Not for nothing did Tarrant hail Trump in his bigoted manifesto “as a symbol of white identity and renewed purpose.” Trump built his political career in part by weaponizing anti-Muslim sentiment in the West, promising sweeping bans against Muslims, grandstanding against Syrian refugees, and winking encouragement toward domestic extremists on the far right.

“As I sat there in the parking lot, in my rental car, I watched a stream of the invaders walk through the shopping centre’s front doors,” Tarrant wrote. “For every French man or woman there was double the number of invaders. I had seen enough, and in anger, drove out of the town, refusing to stay any longer in the cursed place and headed on to the next town.”

Renaud Camus, the polemicist whose thesis in his 2012 book “The Great Replacement” almost certainly influenced Tarrant, decried the gunman’s actions in an interview with The Washington Post. But he felt little concern over how his ideas were being interpreted by far-right politicians and proliferated in the online echo chambers where Tarrant stewed in his hatred.

Raspail is more blunt about what he thinks should be the necessary response to migration."There is going to be a resistance movement, and it has begun,” Raspail told journalist Sasha Polakow-Suransky in 2016. “If the situation becomes the one I predict — catastrophic — there will certainly be resistance that is both tough and armed. … Without the use of force, we will never stop the invasion.

 

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The New Zealand militant also wrote that ' The nation with the closest political and social values to my own is the People's Republic of China' I wonder why don't you blame Xi for his deeds?

Keep it up.

FakeNews

Theory? Its as simple as this, if you support a racist like Trump, YOU ARE A RACIST, no theory needed.. These are NOT very fine people....

The New Zealand shooter related to Trump’s words from a post on the internet. Words carry meaning beyond our borders.

GlennKesslerWP Leftist prove once again how they want to end argument and persuasion as a societal norm because there arguments about everything is based on delusional theories.

Prewritten stories on the shelf say “our narrative that links trump to (insert thing here).”

Fake news

It takes a pretty mentally challenged person to find any way to tag this to Trump...will you idiots go catch up on your knitting or something. Before Trump was President every damn media outlet drooled & begged Trump for interviews etc including Stedmans sugar momma(Oprah)

Democracy Dies from Dumbassery.

Media Check: Lies. This proves the biased propaganda put out by leftist rags. Fakenews

The WP and their shit theories.

While they are at it, why not blame earthquakes and landslides in Trump as well?

Says the Washington compost!!! Feeds everyone Bull Sh-t!!

Where was Trump in 2011 when a psycho got fed up with mass immigration and went on a shooting spree in Norway? Linking Trump is pathetic. The resentment has been building for years. It just takes a single lunatic to act.

“The racist *facts “

These crazy race baiting terrorists are hellbent on igniting a second American civil war. A civil war that no flesh will survive. The actual suicide of a nation. Pray for peace.

It was stated by the killer. Why is this so complex to some

FAKE NEWS!

PamelaPffarrow It’s not a theory. It’s fact.

Let me guess...it's Trump's fault! I don't even care to read this article to find out because of the title alone; are you intentionally trying to close minds to your content?

joe_warmington Trump must be the most incompetent white supremacist: embraced Israel, has Jewish relatives, set up the opportunity zone program helping predominantly black communities, black unemployment rates down, the sentencing deal.

“Theory”?!

I wonder where is the article linking the Orlando Gay Night Club shooter to Obama?

“Theory”

If anybody thinks he’s not racist think again. He’s comments about Muslims... right from the word go have been very insulting n racist towards all non white ppl.

Democracy dies in darkness, or whenever WaPo writes another article. Keep feeding into the shooters motive of dividing our country. Good job ignoramus.

Trump is guilty !!

Islamophobic attacks have been going on in India, Australia and other countries in the region for decades. fakenews

The “wish it was so” camp in full swing , pitiful .

joe_warmington The shooter was a far left Ecofascist and white supremacist. Not a right winger. He also stated he hated trumps politics. Why is this being viewed as right wing hate?

Stop this shit.

Stupidity at its Best!!! This is what divides the country the Media!

Since this is behind your paywall, I can't read it, but I hope the article isn't as shitty as the headline. Cuz Trump didn't do this, but his words and actions certainly helped.

Theory? The shooter spoke highly of Trump as a role model. Named him. That's a pretty solid link. And he's not the only one to do so.

To every move there's always a counter-move...

That link is very clear. Trump is an existential threat here in New Zealand. The entire world is instantly connected, even to the extent that mass murder is streamed for for-profit corporations. We will never forget.

TRUMP IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST.. ....AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS IN NEW ZEALAND...INVADERS ...FRUMP IS THE '' INVADER ''

I think it this type of journalism that justifies the recent law suit filed against this paper. Like the Russian hoax, What evidence can be presented that connects our President to the shooter. Very sick ppl at this paper.

So now that Collusion has turned into a 3 year Delusion.. We see the Democrats and MSM reduced to their old fall back Racism and Race Baiting in utter desperation..

Really? FF

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So now the MSM is siding with a lunatic over POTUS. The story in New Zealand was never about Muslims. The New Zealand story is nothing more than a hit piece on Donald Trump now. The people running the MSM outlets are the real terrorists, say one wrong word, your life is over.

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White supremacy and white nationalist are to seprate things. Supremacy is about race and nationalism is about the nation as a whole. Media is to blame for false reporting of incidences and most notably media silence. Name a single racists comment Trump has made?

You mean the racist media theory!

Everything bad is Trump's fault, everything good Trump has nothing to do with.- Unbiased Washington Post

Straight out of the killer’s playbook. WaPo doing their best to divide us.

Trump is a racist. He’s also hate filled. Combine that with his immoral conduct as a human being, he too could act in a very murderous way IF given the opportunity. If the gutless republicans continue to support his every whim, they are complicit.

This link is to the '66 separate tweets when Trump 'attacks Islam and falsely accuses ALL Muslims as being radical terrorist. It’s disgusting and disgraceful but then again so is Trump in every sense...a loathsome human being.' Courtesy: MaddogSpicy CNN

You can thank Trump Nationalism and now in the Dutch town of Utrecht another incident.

Everything points back to realDonaldTrump! The world was all sweet and nice before he became president!

EVERY SINGLE THING IN THE WORLD ? Really?!?!! American News sucks!

Nothing in the official narrative matches anything shown in the video, and the guy's 'manifesto' doesn't even make sense within itself and everything this guy has done prior. False flag attack. Research pedophile John Podesta,

EnemyOfThePeople

what a fucking stretch....do you REALLY think anyone believes this?

A theory in the same sense as evolution or human-driven climate change.

Keep trying!

So the Shooter in New Zealand Described himself as a former 'Eco terrorist'.liberal Communist Who had a hate of all things Capitalist & Conservatives He Disagreed with President Trumps Politics This guy would have been right at home in an ANTIFA meeting

Here's the link: 1.John Podesta in NZ pumping up a Socialist and predicting problems days before shooting. 2. Shooter, who identifies with Communist China, but reported as 'White Nationalist' 3. Amazon, I mean Wapo conflates with Trump, because DNI servers can be very telling.

Hispanic television reporting on a small group of protestors at the WH, some carrying Antifa flags, while a women in a hijab shouts death to whites🤔

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Most idiotic premise ever.

Whatever will you cry about when Trump leaves office. And don’t say nothing, because your type always has something to cry about!

I don’t think it’s a theory when this is happening in the open...

Trump is going to be a lingering fart in the wind after he leaves office.

This is true

Lmaaaoooo

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