Början på ett mediakrig om mångkulturen?

Mr. Tarrant believes that whites have the right to remain a majority in their countries, a right they share with all other peoples. Media and government elites in the West disagree. As the Washington Post editorial board wrote after the Christchurch massacre, “ ‘replacement’ ideology is an unacceptable trope in civilized discourse.” It may be unacceptable for the Post, but for increasing numbers of whites, it is the vital question of our age. They want to know why our elites grant to Japanese or Turks or New Guineans the right to remain majorities in their own lands, but deny it to Frenchman or New Zealanders. Calling Mr. Tarrant a “bigot consumed by Islamophobia” is not an answer to that question.

Our media and government elites claim they want to stop what they call “hate” violence, but the measures they want to take—more censorship and oppression—will increase it. The Washington Post writes that Mr. Tarrant’s mind was poisoned because “he spent his days slinking through online cesspools” and that he got his ideas from “the fervid extremism that suffuses the Internet’s darkest crevices” (in fact, he wrote that he first felt the impact of the great replacement when he visited France).

The New York Times elaborates on this idea:

The internet is now the place where the seeds of extremism are planted and watered, where platform incentives guide creators toward the ideological poles, and where people with hateful and violent beliefs can find and feed off one another. . . .

[W]e need to understand and address the poisonous pipeline of extremism that has emerged over the past several years.

The obvious next step is more censorship. There has already been a wide-spread and unprecedented internet campaign to silence those who oppose the great replacement or who even believes whites have legitimate group interests of any kind. In the wake of the Christchurch massacre, there will be more censorship, and it will make violence more likely.

It is not “hate,” and it is not immoral to want your people to survive. Every day’s news opens the eyes of yet more whites to the long-term crisis of survival they face. They will not quietly resign themselves to oblivion.

What would have prevented Mr. Tarrant’s murderous rampage? Not more repression, censorship, and demonization.

Let us instead imagine a different political environment. Let us imagine one in which there is open discussion about the demographic future. One in which it is not considered “hate” to ask: How many people should our country have? Do we need any immigrants? Do people of certain religions or races assimilate better than others? Why do people of different races consistently build different societies? Is diversity a strength or a weakness? Is it wrong for whites to prefer to live, marry, and work with other whites? Must whites become a minority?

I have been asking these questions, politely but pointedly, for nearly 30 years. I believe that the long-term solution to racial and ethnic conflict is not to force more “diversity” on people who never asked for it but to let them, if they wish, build separate communities. This can be achieved through the democratic process.

For this, I am called a “hater.” Twitter closed my account, Amazon banned my books, my organization lost its Facebook account, hotels will not rent meeting rooms to me, printers refuse my business, and payment processors have cut me off. Many other groups are harassed and silenced in exactly the same way. Any society that crushes opposing viewpoints is treating dissent as a crime. The entire West is rushing towards tyranny, and as we saw in Christchurch, tyranny has consequences. When even the most moderate views are outlawed, extremism—and worse—will flourish.

Mr. Tarrant lives in a world in which there is no political voice for whites who want to build homelands for their descendants. They are demonized and silenced, and their own explanations of their motives are suppressed or caricatured. Mr. Tarrant lives in a world that is developing a system of intolerance and oppression that will soon rival those from the Communist era.

Mr. Tarrant committed a horrible act of mass murder. Anyone who sincerely wants to prevent such murders should remember this: When people have a voice, they speak; when they don’t have a voice, they kill.