The aftermath of a terror attack: 'When it's a white perpetrator, something happened to him as opposed to him being inherently evil'
A man prays at a makeshift memorial at the Al Noor Mosque on Deans Road in Christchurch on Tuesday. Source: AAP/PA ImagesFifty people were killed in the terror attack and many others injured.
Dr Orla Lynch, Head of Criminology at University College Cork, said she understands why people are discussing such issues but that some of the debate misses a wider point. “Unfortunately, we may never truly know why someone carries out an attack like that witnessed in Christchurch. “We’re looking for answers, trying to diagnose why this white man did something awful,” Lynch told TheJournal.ie.Tarrant is a self-professed white supremacist and made a white power symbol when appearing in court last weekend. A 74-page manifesto, entitled The Great Replacement, he released before the mass shooting is filled with racist vitriol, detailing two years of planning for the massacre.
In a statement issued last week, New Zealand Police said they were “aware there is extremely distressing footage relating to the incident in Christchurch circulating online”. She said the video and document will always exist in the “dark recesses of the web” but, even then, the vast majority of people with extreme right-wing views who watch or read them “will never do more than that” – that is to say, they won’t carry out a violent act as a result.
Lynch said she understands Ardern’s position but thinks people’s focus should be on stopping far-right ideas “creeping into the mainstream”, stating: “We need to stop that creep, call it out when it happens.”
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