Mass Shooting at Christchurch Mosque

[Donner]

Live updates: Mass shootings at Christchurch mosques - CNN

White supremacists at it again.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Sadly... We should just open a Mass Shooting Thread at this point.

Only about 1% of a small population and this is enough to target them.

And that's not to say that there's not terrorism justified by an extremist reading of Islam which targets those in the West as well as other Muslims... But that's not justification for these tragedies.

 

[Lighthouse]

Jesus, he livestreamed it and told people to subscribe to Pewdepie.

 

[Lighthouse]

ALERT: BE CAREFUL WHEN READING TWITTER!
Twitter needs to get on top of this NOW! There are tons of accounts posting the video of the shooting and it's super easy to stumble onto it.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Jesus...

 

[jmc]

Yeah, the footage is out there, and I highly recommend people not watch it.

 

[Donner]

It's ****ed.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

40 dead after attacks on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand

At least 40 people killed.

 

[phillyboy]

I was on lockdown here til around 5:30pm at work/ university. The whole situation is FUBAR. This isn't the type of thing that happens here- we have incredibly strict gun laws. Glad to be home with my family now.

Proud of our prime minister for calling it what is was- a terrorist attack.

 

[DeadPresident]

“Subscribe to pewdiepie”...

That guy’s been flirting with fringe/alt-right references in his content for a while, I wonder what will be made of this by him and others.

 

[jmc]

I was on lockdown here til around 5:30pm at work/ university. The whole situation is FUBAR. This isn't the type of thing that happens here- we have incredibly strict gun laws. Glad to be home with my family now.

Proud of our prime minister for calling it what is was- a terrorist attack.

Stay safe across the ditch.

 

[jmc]

“Subscribe to pewdiepie”...

That guy’s been flirting with fringe/alt-right references in his content for a while, I wonder what will be made of this by him and others.

Do not blame him for this bull ****. He has not, and has never had anything to do with the alt-right.

 

[Hobgoblin]

49 people are dead. This is incredible and terrible.

 

[Mani-Man]

“Subscribe to pewdiepie”...

That guy’s been flirting with fringe/alt-right references in his content for a while, I wonder what will be made of this by him and others.

No lets hold on there, yeah he may be a ******* who got away with a ton of crap in the past because of the number of idiots who follow him...but at worst he is just a untalented clown who gets more attention than he deserves.

On topic...
This so incredible sad and needless.
I really hope i dont come across the footage, dont need to see stuff like that.
Hopefully the investigation etc is swift and clean, those who were involved need to brought to justice.

 

[jolldan]

Incredibly sad, hope nobody on here's family or friends were hurt.

 

[Erik20]

I was on lockdown here til around 5:30pm at work/ university. The whole situation is FUBAR. This isn't the type of thing that happens here- we have incredibly strict gun laws. Glad to be home with my family now.

Proud of our prime minister for calling it what is was- a terrorist attack.

It's "funny" how the media keeps calling it a shooting, not a terrorist attack. (We all probably know why...)

 

[jolldan]

I debated if I should post this or not but think I should in the unlikely event anyone knows any of these people and hopefully try and spread it enough that a couple of these scum bags lose their job.

Or are at least bring to light for the type of people they are.


EDIT: Just noticed one of the tweets contains a swear but don't think its viewable unless you click on to the tweet does this still break rules?

 

[DeadPresident]

Do not blame him for this bull ****. He has not, and has never had anything to do with the alt-right.

No lets hold on there, yeah he may be a ******* who got away with a ton of crap in the past because of the number of idiots who follow him...but at worst he is just a untalented clown who gets more attention than he deserves.

On topic...
This so incredible sad and needless.
I really hope i dont come across the footage, dont need to see stuff like that.
Hopefully the investigation etc is swift and clean, those who were involved need to brought to justice.

Lol what...? Seems like a slight overreaction to a fairly reasonable statement.

He’s been riding on alt-right memes since Trump’s campaign started and courted controversy with his little “Death to all Jews” “prank”...I wonder who that resonated with? Reasonable folks, I’m sure.

“He’s never had anything to do with the alt-right”...get the **** out of here At the very least he’s been making references to their ilk for like two years.

Also if you two paid attention you’d notice I didn’t blame him for anything, I just remarked on the fact that the people mentioned him by name, which is curious.

 

[jmc]

I think someone's been reading the media's bull **** portrayals of him. If you know anything about Felix you know it's not a reasonable statement at all.

 

[terry78]

Here we go.

 

[DeadPresident]

I think someone’s mounting an emotion-filled defense of one of his idols.

Am I blaming him for this? No, that would be moronic. Am I saying there’s an inkling of a link between how much he’s referenced the alt-right and their motifs and those people seeing him as a bit of a beacon to gather around? Yes, I am saying that.

Denying it is just bad form, he clearly appeals to certain questionable individuals but he can’t be blamed for this event, obviously.

Take off your Felix-tinted glasses and look at my posts again, they’re perfectly reasonable statements across the board, you simply don’t like their implications.

You’re questioning why a guy who jokingly gets two guys to make a “Death to all Jews” sign and post it online appeals to pseudo-Nazis? You’re smarter than that.

 

[terry78]

And this is how it's gonna be the whole weekend, a back and forth regarding an internet celeb who's annoying at worst but will now probably be getting serious threats.

 

[DeadPresident]

He can afford decent security and he’s probably in Sweden I assume, I’m sure he’ll be perfectly fine. He’s weathered all his other controversies, this won’t affect him in the slightest.

 

[jmc]

I think someone’s mounting an emotion-filled defense of one of his idols.

Am I blaming him for this? No, that would be moronic. Am I saying there’s an inkling of a link between how much he’s referenced the alt-right and their motifs and those people seeing him as a bit of a beacon to gather around? Yes, I am saying that.

Denying it is just bad form, he clearly appeals to certain questionable individuals but he can’t be blamed for this event, obviously.

Take off your Felix-tinted glasses and look at my posts again, they’re perfectly reasonable statements across the board, you simply don’t like their implications.

So, let me get this right. Because some dude who plays games and reviews memes says a couple of dumb things that automatically links him marginally with the alt right does it? If that's the case then half the ****ing people you know can be categorised with these clowns. See, here's the problem with this alt-right bull ****, what's getting defined as alt-right keeps getting shifted to the point where the term is becoming meaningless, to the point where anything controversial is being lumped in with these morons. And you alluding to a link here is part of the ****ing problem. You're linking some guy who has made some stupid mistakes in with the guy who just killed 49 people in New Zealand. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this idea is idiotic beyond belief.

 

[Erik20]

I debated if I should post this or not but think I should in the unlikely event anyone knows any of these people and hopefully try and spread it enough that a couple of these scum bags lose their job.

Or are at least bring to light for the type of people they are.


EDIT: Just noticed one of the tweets contains a swear but don't think its viewable unless you click on to the tweet does this still break rules?

Not surprising... I've already seen a lot of comments of people downplaying it, or showing some understanding, somehow finding a way to blame muslims and immigrants for this attack.

Like "It's really sad of course, but this is what happens when people can't take it anymore..."