Ardern’s refusal to name the terrorist redirected collective mourning toward the fifty-one victims
Evidence
Ardern put a halt to these designs, deftly turning our collective sight in the other direction, moving the world to pay tribute and give life to the fifty-one victims the prevailing tide sought to bury. The Muslim victims, shot down by a white supremacist terrorist, who in those ninety-six hours after the last bullet was fired risked being buried and forgotten forever. That black hole in our memory that the War on Terror sets aside exclusively for Muslim victims, where there is no collective mourning and no elegies of respect are read, waited for them. Ardern did her part to fill that hole, stopping their fall into the forever of forgetting by doing what so many failed to do: saying their names and praising their memory. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 980
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Jacinda Ardern’s post-attack tribute gave Christchurch’s fifty-one victims enduring public remembrance (similarity 0.86)
- Mainstream media reversed course and honored Christchurch victims rather than the terrorist (similarity 0.85)
- Ardern refused to name the Christchurch terrorist before parliament (similarity 0.84)
- Ardern’s refusal to name the shooter denied him the notoriety media would have granted (similarity 0.84)
- Naming victims restores the life the War on Terror denied them (similarity 0.81)
- Ardern deliberately positioned Islam at the center rather than margins of mourning (similarity 0.79)
- The Christchurch terrorist staged his violence to achieve immortal notoriety (similarity 0.79)
- Ardern funded all 51 Christchurch funerals and banned military semi-automatic weapons (similarity 0.79)
- Ardern’s government paid all fifty-one Christchurch victims’ funerals regardless of citizenship (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Ardern refused to name the Christchurch terrorist before parliament
#corroborates(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 976 - Ardern’s twelve-word elegy countered the media’s erasure of Muslim victims
#expands(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1012 - Mainstream media reversed course and honored Christchurch victims rather than the terrorist
#corroborates(0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 983