Final thing before I log off, I still hate what he did & my heart goes out to the victims.

Also I'm happy to completely disagree with this quote. Immigrants + capitalism are fantastic, and, (as #Stoicism & #TheWork taught me) complaints never work on others, only yourself.

Right? Good point there. Reminds me of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx5j98ueTKQ. The point of
the past is not to incite violence but to move past it.

Yeah. Agree. He seems to be very driven by fear that white people will be eradicated. Honestly, I don't think there's been a better time to be white. Let alone human.

Hope this wakes up everyone to the fact that we're one world community no matter what place you're from.

I don't want to release the shooter's manifesto publicly lest it get in front of those who won't read it critically, but I do want to share it to everyone who will.

You can email me james at (my last name) dot nz, or msg Keybase.io/JamesScaur, and I'll send it to you.

So to say I'm doing critical analysis on myself is an understatement. I'm not going to pretend there's anything that makes me different to this shooter. I'm just lucky to have the great people around me that I do...

https://twitter.com/JamesScaur/status/1106918768624746496

... enjoyed the memes, the darker/edgier/ironic the better.

There's still a part of me that laughs at stuff like "Rename Christchurch "MohammedMosque" for reparations" even though this is an attack on my hometown & ppl.

https://twitter.com/JamesScaur/status/1106918061070868480

In fact, I'm ashamed to say it, but I used to be into borderline-racist stuff like Islam being an evil religion that encourages murder/rape/pedophilia, that the refugee crisis was intentional, etc. I subscribed to stuff like /r/ImGoingToHellForThis, regularly browsed 4chan, ...

...feel like it's my responsibility to seek out more of those similarities, recognise what my words do, and change what's in myself so that I can ensure I never become like this dude.

https://twitter.com/JamesScaur/status/1106916179535425537

I'm also aware that within myself I share far too much with the shooter than I'm comfortable with, like ironic/dark sense of humour, tendency to be idealistic, previous browsing of the chans including /pol/, and of course similar backgrounds (NZ/Aus, no uni, into crypto). I ...

3/ I can also seek out more areas of my thinking where I have false premises.

E.g. I spent 2y cut off from my parents bc my dad was low-income & aggressive. Only 6m ago did I reconcile after waking up that your environment always overpowers your willpower, he never had a choice.

But yeah, was really dumb too that he thought actual genocide would combat (passive) "white genocide". Like sure, go and shoot up a sacred place, that'll make everyone feel real safe & keen to have babies!

Take it with the grain of salt that I have very little cash, paid 2 months rent with cryptocurrency in early 2018, spent my early teens in post-recession 2008, and have spent the last 4 months experiencing the woes of international banking. I'm the perfect sucker for Bitcoin.

I like the quote, but I disagree about him not having a meaning.

He created himself a meaning - the age old defending his kin from the foreign enemy. He was insignificant, then suddenly significant in a very real way. I think he felt alive, calm, and heroic.

Aw, thanks @abcoathup!

Perhaps just making it expensive to peep, then n-1 less expensive to peep (yet also, less permanent) as replies stack up. No idea on how this would technically look yet, though.

You'd know a lot more about scalability than me. Keen to see Peepeth continue to evolve.

True, good point.

You just gave me an idea though - make it expensive/risky (as in, tie your reputation/identity) to post top-level peeps - but make replies easier/more anonymous (and also more ephemeral/blockable)

Still, I trust @Bevan's judgement & look fwd to the future.

True. Though not necessarily a bad thing... would decrease the amount saved to the blockchain, no?

I don't think it's worth watching unless you enjoy dank memes/dark jokes (like I have and still do) and haven't yet faced up to the reality of what it can cause.

https://twitter.com/JamesScaur/status/1106904207670415360

2/ …still do a lot better.

Possibilities:
• spending a few months in Asia + India
• spending more time in Georgia & its neighboring Muslim countries
• reading the Quran
• reading the Bible
• reading the Bhagavad Gita
• learning Māori, for real
• volunteering for refugee centres

1/ I’ve come away with a major resolution out of this whole shooting: to be more tolerant of others.

As a kid I grew up kinda racist esp. towards Maori/Desi/SE Asians, it’s funny that now I have a lot of respect for Maori culture and do yoga, meditate, love tea, etc…

I can …

> Travelling the world, appreciating people’s cultures, staying in people’s homes, yet not accepting Muslim New Zealanders in his non-birth-nation of New Zealand.

> Goes to France to watch people walk into a shopping centre

I mean c’mon. Couldn’t think of a better thing to do?

> Complaining about birthrates yet never having kids

Nor even making that his goal. He certainly doesn’t seem to have taken the effort to become an attractive man nor get the resources that’d enable him to provide for a kid (both unemployed & uneducated).

Total Redpiller/Incel.

Also, just because I really can’t resist poking fun at his stupid-ass ideas:

> Killing innocent hardworking men, women, and children in New Zealand to preserve “muh European culture”

> Shooting a 5 year old innocent girl to take revenge for an 11 year old innocent girl

And by far my overall interpretation:

This is no longer something I can brush off and ignore. Not now it’s happened to my home city. I must find a way to make sense of what happened and prevent the behaviour in myself/others.

The solution to hate and fear is not ignorance.

Re #3: My takeaway: We all want to be significant (or at least, I’m 100% certain it’s a hardwired masculine trait). How can we find a way to allow more people to be important?

Maybe we need more fighting sports, masculine tribe-like activities, competitions, physical risks.

Just like you’re lying to yourself if you say you wouldn’t be a Nazi in WW2 Germany, you’re lying if you say the shooter was a deranged monster.

No. He’s far more similar to you and i than we want to admit.

And I also think that we (or at least the ‘we’ that is young Kiwi guys) should have some balls and recognise - he’s one of us - it’s our responsibility to fix.

I’m actually really angry that people are trying to shut down the manifesto. The video I can understand. But the manifesto should be read and analysed.

We should wake up to the fact that all the brutality came from a source. He wasn’t deranged. He reasoned himself into it.

And for others too - I think that it’s important we all hunt out what we’re hiding from & the part of our worldviews that don’t hold up. Every person who can read critically should read the manifesto. Understand the source of the brutality. Confrontation is the answer not hiding.

Re #2: My takeaway: Hunt out my own false worldview premises.

For starters, I don’t know much about religion, so I could maybe do with reading the Quran, Bible, Bhagavad Gita, and getting more religious friends.

Entertain thoughts but don’t necessarily believe them.

Re #1: My takeaway: I’m a product of my environment. Be bloody careful about what I read, watch, and consume. The terrifying part of the manifesto for me is how similar his humour/non-racist views were to mine.

I think this applies to everyone but important for all Kiwis to know

My interpretation of the manifesto (haven’t seen the full video) was a little different. I don’t think he was crazy. I think he had access to his full mental capabilities. He wasn’t a psychopath. He was a regular guy like any NZ/Aussie who hung out on /pol/ far too much.

Dark day for Australasia indeed.

Agree. Good point CMG.

I definitely think there’s a lot to take away from it, at least for me and other New Zealanders/Australians.

https://twitter.com/FreedomGeorgia/status/1106541710912512000?s=20

I’ve been thinking about what happened in #Christchurch all day and I have 3 conclusions.

1. Any Kiwi/Aussie guy is capable of what he did

2. It’s possible to be logical/competent in many ways yet base your worldview off a false premise

3. He wanted significance, & he got it

@a_cat__ actually, he's a shining anti-example of @jordanbpeterson #rule6.

• Unemployed ("kebab removalist")
• Single (which explains his obsession with birth rates)
• Clearly spent most of his time on 4chan /pol/ - e.g.

https://twitter.com/JamesScaur/status/1106527663898935296

https://twitter.com/JamesScaur/status/1106507387299483648

@a_cat__ I think you're misunderstanding @jordanbpeterson though, he's certainly not about this, see "Put Your House In Perfect Order Before You Criticise The World": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYua-3JmnT4

https://twitter.com/JamesScaur/status/1106472163673104389

I'd already accept 100% of my wages in cryptocurrencies. More than 10% in (multiple) fiats, now that's a little too risky for my liking.

Like another commenter said, thank you @MatthewKeysLive for allowing us to read the manifesto. I disagree with those who say it should be taken down. Ignorance doesn't solve problems, honest confrontation does.

https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/status/1106473669436399621

Agree. It's full of memes like the Navy Seal copypasta. Clearly this dude has been on 4chan/reddit for years, which explains how he got into Bitconnect as well. An echo chamber of white nationalism and conspiracy theories.

https://twitter.com/a_cat__/status/1106463320993947648

Time to take a break from the computer. The manifesto is disgusting but I don't agree with the people saying it shouldn't be shared. Nope, it should shared, it should be analysed, and we should find every way we can prevent this in the future.

#nsfw

When I say similar I mean that we had similar environments. That's what makes this so uncomfortable to read. How a person like me (NZ/AU, no uni, into crypto) could carry out this attack. Very disconcerting.

https://twitter.com/JamesScaur/status/1106451076805464065

Hero. Heartbreaking.

https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/status/1106454709085179904

Agree, this could be it. In that case there would be no revenge motivation, just another murderous coward who got lucky... this time in a safe city with no reason to suspect a terror attack.

https://twitter.com/madiharashid88/status/1106416270486851585

He breaks a lot of ideas I have about consistency. I guess people are imbalanced & can be really good in 1 domain e.g. planning w/o the restriction of being good in another e.g. figuring out the logical target for revenge.

https://twitter.com/JamesScaur/status/110645451910012518

e.g. how can you be so stupid to believe this is “revenge” yet smart enough to plan & avoid detection? How can you be so empathetic to one group yet unempathetic enough to do a massacre? It goes beyond pure racism…

https://twitter.com/JamesScaur/status/1106451076805464065