Despite attempts to address online hate speech in New Zealand and global praise at the response, an estimated 60-70 far-right groups still exist
“They are us. The person who has perpetuated this violence against us is not,” said Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s leader, in the hours after a terrorist attack in March last year that killed 51 people and injured dozens more at two mosques in the country’s worst peacetime massacre. “They have no place in New Zealand. There is no place in New Zealand for such acts of extreme and unprecedented violence.”
The mass shooting in Christchurch, a remote, peaceful corner of the world, reverberated around the globe – shocking in its brutality, violence and the white-supremacist hatred that inspired it. Afterwards, it was overtaken by the remarkable compassion and unity of New Zealand’s response.
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