ABSTRACT
In Alabama, in the years following Brown vs. Board of Education that made segregated schooling unconstitutional, a spate of commentators had a field day against what they deemed unacceptable encroachment by the federal capital. One of these, Riley Kelly, blamed some lynchings on Washington DC interference and wrote abrasive comments on white supporters of the civil-rights movement, dismissing them as a bunch of “do-gooders”. In 2019, Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian from New South Wales, entered the Christchurch mosque in New Zealand, and people know all too well what unfolded: Tarrant live-streamed the killing of 51 Muslims before being caught after he had entered a second mosque. Following his arrest, Tarrant styled himself a “regular White man” from “a regular family”. He was influenced by French far-right ideologue Renaud Camus and his doom-filled views on “The Great Replacement”, a man who himself regards Enoch Powell as a great political prophet.
