So the New Zealanders have accepted their opportunity to show the world just how virtuous they are, from the Prime Minister to the local biker gangs, all are united in their displays of piety and compassion.
Wonderful news, but when one crazy goes on a killing spree, why does nobody ask why, anymore?
Tragedies like the Christchurch massacre are thankfully rare, yet the media immediately jump onto the 'white supremacist' bandwagon, as though there is some well thought out and defined movement driving the perpetrators, yet their actual reasoning is never examined nor their fears addressed.
Interestingly, while the 'white supremacist' tag is used for attention grabbing headlines, but the articles tend to more accurately write about 'white nationalist', as these people are usually not the spreaders of supremacist ideologies, but reacting to fears in an increasingly hostile environment, where all the world's ills are the fault of white privilege, and every free thinking person is a racist ideologue, little wonder that they resort to violence as the only voice that will be 'listened' to.
The terrible irony is that these attacks receive so much attention because they are so rare, yet islamist attacks against civilians and particularly Christians, have become so common, that they barely make the footnotes in our daily news reports.
Coming only weeks after the murder of 20 worshipers in a catholic cathedral in the Philippines, it is difficult not to contrast the different coverage, and if those numbers aren't enough, the more recent 120 killed in Nigeria were also notable by their seeming irrelevance to our 4th Estate.
When Turkey's Erdogan showed video footage to encourage support for his islamist ideologies, did the Western media bother itself? Apart from a little tut tutting, not much.
Ignoring the Global Jihad ensures that these incidents continue in frequency and intensity, and gives all the motivation and justification that some will use to plan and carry out equally violent acts in response.
Hiding bad news does not make it go away, and pretending that only white people do bad things is a sure way to ensure that increasing numbers of white people will continue to do bad things.
