Ugly reactionary mainstream political discourse, cultivated and nurtured right here in Australia, has twice motivated and inspired two of the world's most despicable and depraved acts of mass murder, both committed within this decade.

A big influence mentioned in the NZ W.S. mass killer's manifesto was the manifesto of the Norwegian W.S. mass killer, who killed 77 people in 2011. Two influences Anders Breivik (hate using his name) cited were the anti-immigration stances of John Howard and George Pell.

"the [Norwegian] killer quoted Mr Howard, former treasurer Peter Costello, Catholic Cardinal George Pell and conservative writer and historian Keith Windschuttle." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-26/breivik-manifesto-praises-australian-conservatives/2810730

@threadreaderapp unroll please.

You can see why "authorities requested" nobody read the diatribes written by these sick individuals. The politics are all too obvious, and the provocation that drove their hate crimes is all too banal and close to home. They took what was being said openly and ran with it.