When Brenton Tarrant live-streamed his massacre of fifty-one Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019, he was but one in a series of lone-acting White men committing violent crime to further the radical White nationalist aim to save the White Race from extinction and establish a White ethnostate.
From where did White nationalists get the notion of an ongoing White genocide? Why should \'resistance\' against a perceived invasion of \'white\' territory be launched by individual \'Lone wolves\' massacring noncombatants they have no prior relation to? How could slaughtering children be construed as a heroic act that a perpetrator wants to broadcast to the world? Based on a unique collection of interviews with Lone wolves, their victims, and their supporters, and a close reading of Lone wolf, fascist, and radical nationalist material and communication, this Element provides solid answers to these and adjacent questions of importance..
When Brenton Tarrant live-streamed his massacre of fifty-one Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019, he was but one in a series of lone-acting White men committing violent crime to further the radical White nationalist aim to save the White Race from extinction and establish a White ethnostate