![]() Heer believes that social networks have the tools to combat hatred online, but resist using them. "It's a way of … introducing shocking ideas that many respectable people would reject if they were put out forthright, but doing it in a joking-not-joking way, and making the unthinkable thinkable." "Irony plays a very big role in racist and Nazi rhetoric," Heer said, adding the tactic dates back to the early 20th century. Heer says the Christchurch attacker's use of irony fits into a broader feedback loop that makes once-unpalatable ideas seem less hostile. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald/Reuters) Irony common in 'Nazi rhetoric' ![]() A judge ordered his face blurred in photographs. Brenton Tarrant, charged for murder in relation to the deadly mosque attacks, is lead into the dock for his appearance in the Christchurch District Court, New Zealand, March 16, 2019.
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