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Reading Manifestos: Restricting Brenton Tarrant's The Great Replacement
Kampmark, Binoy
http://dissidentvoice.org/2019/03/reading-manifestos-restricting-brenton-tarrants-the-great-replacement/Date Written: 2019-03-22 Publisher: Dissident Voice Year Published: 2019 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23569 Attempts to censor the Christchurch shooter's manifesto hinders attempts to understand and counteract their motives. Arguments for censorship, such as enabling copycats, are based on controversial evidence. Abstract: -- Excerpt: A censorious and censoring attitude has engulfed responses to the mental airings of the Christchurch shooter. Material in connection with Brenton Tarrant, the alleged gunman behind the killing of 50 individuals at two mosques in New Zealand, is drying up; his manifesto, for one, is being disaggregated and spread through multiple forms, removed from their various parts with blunt razors. Doing so does a disservice to any arguments that might be mounted against him, but having a debate is not what this is generally about.... British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was also keen that those battling Germany have a sense of what they were up against. As he noted in his history of the Second World War, "There was no book which deserved more careful study from the rulers, political and military, of the Allied Powers [than Mein Kampf]." All the elements were there, from "the programme of German insurrection" to establishing "the rightful position of Germany at the summit of the world." Subject Headings |