It was all caught by the camera as he went about his terrible mission, and live-streamed, so people could watch him at work, so to speak. And watch they did
It was 35 years ago that the Canadian anthropologist Elliott Leyton sat down to write the “acknowledgements” for his book, Hunting Humans, that was first published two years later, in 1986.
Rather, Leyton says, “they can only be fully understood as representing the logical themes in their culture — of worldly ambition, of success and failure, and of manly avenging violence … they can only be accurately and objectively perceived as prime embodiment of their civilization, not twisted derangement.”
An older man, atop a pile of other people and caught against a wall of the mosque in a corner, appeared to be alive when Tarrant shot him, whether this was for the second time, and he was either missed or wounded the first go-round, wasn’t clear. And watch they did: 8chan, an anything-goes platform of the dark web where Tarrant appears to have also given friends a heads up about the attack , was filled with exclamations of anonymously posted delight, from those who had gone to Facebook to watch, that this was real.
Users on other social media sites such as Twitter and Reddit copied the footage, posted and “shared” it to such a degree that even after Facebook tried to remove it, the massacre remained all over the internet for hours.
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